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How do we ensure that disaster preparedness messages reach all their intended audiences? How do we account for the needs of elderly people, children

In what ways can law support efforts of preventing, mitigating and preparing for disasters? To what extent does law succeed in ensuring the existence

The world’s coastlines face increasing risks from flooding and storm surge. Nature can reduce that risk. A new report reviews new and emerging

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) highlights the need for collating human and economic disaster losses by the year 2020, using

Mindfulness is often summed up with the phrase “be here now”. We can all be mindful; it’s rooted in our consciousness, and it’s associated with greater emotional intelligence. Neuroscientists think that mindfulness can literally rewire our brains.

In the DRR sector, the limited concept of ‘best’ or ‘good’ practice seems to be or is becoming the dominating, and almost religiously adhered to dogma, at the expense of a more robust evidence-based approach.

The effects of a changing global climate are already being felt in Bangladesh, which is ranked second on the climate change vulnerabilities index

Sione Fulivai, from the government of Tonga, described his country’s coordinated approach to development which merges adaptation and DRR throughout all levels of government.

Disaster risk reduction has been placed in the mainstream of international society’s discussions of development, based on the Sendai Framework that

I worked as Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction documentation officer from 2012-2014, and travelled to Bangladesh to review Concern’s