that they are not prepared to cope with a natural disaster. There is a clear income gradient in the ability to cope with …, and residing in rural areas are less able to handle disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on disaster …

– offering detailed descriptions and analyses of some 25 historical cases (Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Bhopal disaster …, Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster …

In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at … the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14 - 18, 2015). We review and discuss …

development prospects of affected regions. As such, climate change reinforces the development case for investment in disaster risk … complicates disaster risk management investment decisions, the analysis presented here shows that these considerations are only … for disaster risk management investment decisions. Accounting for climate uncertainty is likely to shift the optimal …

The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation …