UNESCO, in partnership with national and international stakeholders, continues to support disaster risk reduction in ...

The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...

Harnessing the collective capabilities of APRU universities for interdisciplinary research in disaster management, students attended talks by the professors from different universities and ...

Thank you for the opportunity to address this plenary discussion on the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. I appreciate today’s theme, which looks beyond natural ...

The term “Tech for Good” has popped up in national and international conversations. It often exists to counter to complaints and attention drawn to the technology community’s role in a variety of ...

China has flagged a "high risk" of a barrier lake breaching near the Nepal-Tibet border, five days after a Himalayan glacier collapse triggered one of the flood disasters.

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) on Wednesday signed two MoUs with the United Nations ...

This article is authored by Mahesh Ganguly, teaching assistant and research fellow, IIT Bombay and Amaan Siddiqui, ...

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 ...

The mudslide disaster on August 26 differs from past glacial collapses in several key ways, and Nepal's response experiences ...