Our future resilience depends on more than how much we spend on disaster response. It depends on when we spend it.

The data’s in for 2025. It was yet another year of back-to-back billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the U.S.

When we talk about disasters, we often default to the language of nature. We describe storms as "unprecedented," floods as ...

A RELATIVELY new form of news reporting is gaining attention following the natural disasters that left widespread damage and ...

Disaster-stricken communities around the state have found solutions to protect people and property, but they need help.

This might be helpful for the stabilization of collective social psychology, but it could also reduce pressure for structural reforms, and allow the long-term investments required for reforming ...

Water more than six feet high flooded the Appalshop main building, including the WMMT community radio station studio, in Whitesburg, Ky., last summer during a flood that devastated Eastern Kentucky.

The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) faces severe challenges due to its vulnerability to climate change and natural ...

Kangaroo Island, before the 2019-2020 bushfires, burned more than two-fifths of the island and killed two people. Source: Courtesy of Ilan Kelman We have all been through the terrible COVID-19 ...

From Himalayan cloudbursts and Punjab floods to cyclones on both coasts and relentless heatwaves, 2025 exposed India’s ...

Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about ...

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Deakin University In the past ten years we have seen ...