East Asia Pacific is the most disaster-stricken region in the world. According to a regional disaster risk management study from 2013, between 2000 and 2011, more than 1.6 billion people have been ...

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 ...

When Cyclone Ditwah swept across Sri Lanka in November 2025, affecting over 2 million people, it was the latest chapter in a pattern of intensifying climate-related hazards reshaping the island’s risk ...

This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 13 October 2022, focused on the objective to “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard ...

Truly understanding climate-related disaster risk, and the management of that risk, can inform effective action on climate adaptation and the loss and damage mechanism, the main vehicle under the UN ...

Natural and man-made disasters have significant social, economic, and environmental impact. In 2015, the United Nations formally recognised, through the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction ...

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the ...

The Government of Armenia has recognized the importance of disaster risk management, highlighting that natural hazards threaten the country’s development. In this regard, the World Bank Group is ...