A prominent Japanese political figure appealed to U.N. member states Tuesday to implement guidelines approved in Japan last year aimed...
disaster risk reduction News
Preliminary results of a catastrophe modelling study presented at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction show little...
The global economic losses from natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones and have continued rising to reach an...
The average annual cost of natural disasters has quadrupled over the last three decades and it makes economic sense to...
Economic losses from disasters since 2000 are in the range of $2.5 trillion, a figure at least 50 percent higher...