The World Bank Group focuses on resilience solutions that can be replicated and scaled across countries facing similar risks, combining financing, knowledge, policy reform, and private capital. Cities ...
Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious ...
A worker in Thailand clears a road after a major flood. Disasters can threaten the infrastrucutre, investment climate, and human capital that jobs depend on. Photo credit: Adobe Stock At the World ...
When disaster strikes, businesses face immediate and costly challenges: How do they keep operations running, protect their assets and recover quickly? While no company is immune to crises, those with ...
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 human and environmental cost of climate change is all around us, and on the rise. The UN reports about 90% of all disasters are weather-related, and that weather and climate are major drivers of ...