Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT researchers create serious games to teach disaster management and resilience skills

Situations such as the coronavirus pandemic have heightened interest in the importance of disaster management and mitigation. At Rochester Institute of Technology, researchers have created two new ...
World Bank

23rd Disaster Risk Management Seminar "Learning from Japan’s Experience in Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management: Launch of A Series of Knowledge Notes"

Globally, floods are the most frequent and damaging among natural hazards. Between 1998-2017, floods led to economic damages exceeding US$600 billion, affected more than 2 billion people, and resulted ...
World Bank

Learning from Megadisasters: A Decade of Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), a mega-disaster that marked Japan and the world with its unprecedented scale of destruction. This feature story ...
The Conversation

Targeting disaster management: New research evidence from Sierra Leone

Professor Lee Miles received funding from the UK's Global Research Challenges Fund (GCRF) under the auspices of Driving African Capacity-Building in Disaster Management (AFRICAB) Research Project, ...
BusinessMirror

OCD Davao: Incident management teams be formed in schools for disaster preparedness

Disaster response teams ought to be formed and established in all schools in the Davao Region to minimize chaos, manage people’s responses and avoid disasters and calamities to happen during natural ...