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The Relevance of Soft Infrastructure in Disaster Management and Risk Reduction

Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...
The Conversation

You can’t talk about disaster risk reduction without talking about inequality

Dale Dominey-Howes receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Global Resilience Partnership and State and Federal disaster management sources. A growing body of post-disaster research ...
Eco-Business

UN endorses first-ever global statistical framework to measure disaster risk and impacts

The United Nations has endorsed a new global statistical framework for disaster-related statistics to help countries better ...
World Bank

Strengthening Disaster Resilience and Response in Latin America and the Caribbean

In Colombia, World Bank support helped extend social protection to approximately 340,000 households and supported the incorporation of disaster risk management into new construction, renovation, or ...
SunStar

Cebu disaster officers call for better pay, job security in new resolution

DISASTER risk reduction officers across Cebu are pushing for a "Magna Carta" to protect frontline workers. During a quarterly meeting in Cebu City last week, of ...