There has been some degree of reluctance in the past to consider disaster risk management within the mainstream of … adaptation to climate variability and climate change. However, there is now wide recognition of the need to incorporate disaster … with disaster risk management. It showcases projects and other initiatives in this field that are being undertaken in both …

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

-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … deeper into disaster economics, the Handbook then presents empirical methods and applications used in modelling disaster …

mechanisms by studying the feedback loops governing complex systems connected to the disaster insurance mechanism. Instead of … addressing the disaster's underlying risk, the traditional disaster insurance strategy largely focuses on providing financial … security for asset recovery after a disaster. This constraint becomes especially concerning as the threat of climate …