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The vast majority of damage to residential buildings during flooding occurs in basements. Rather than rebuilding identically after a disaster, we need to build better.
The recommendations of the senate inquiry into Australia’s disaster resilience mainly focus on volunteers involved in the immediate disaster response. This will not make Australians more resilient.
‘Twisters’ selectively depicts aspects of reality by showcasing the raw, destructive power of tornadoes – but don’t look to it for safety advice.
Landslides are usually sudden and cause devastation in their wake. Here’s why they are seemingly impossible to predict.
A civil engineer lays out the physics behind Dali’s crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge pier.
Human error may have contributed to the tragic accident in Baltimore harbour on March 26. Designing systems that reduce the potential for human error may help prevent future incidents.
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge is already affecting global supply chains.
A cargo ship leaving the Port of Baltimore collided with a bridge in a technological disaster that may have claimed the lives of up to six maintenance workers on the bridge at the time.
We’ll need to learn the lessons from this disaster.
A civil engineer explains why ships taking out bridges is rare, and describes how bridge builders protect the structures from ship collisions.
Despite improvements in disaster response management since the Abbotsford floods of 2021, long-term animal welfare remains woefully underappreciated in B.C.
A hot, dry summer on the heels of a wet winter raises the risk of wildfires.
Governments and the media remain focused on responding to disasters, not preventing or preparing for them. Here’s what must change — and will and won’t work — as Canada faces increased disaster risks.
As Turkey is recovering from the most devastating earthquake in its recent history, a timely opportunity emerges to change how to reconstruct housing.
Tailoring crisis communications strategies across the phases of the disaster management cycle is a more successful approach and can help co-ordinate disaster responses.
The film asks how individuals and communities can tackle disaster while embracing an ethos of mutual aid that sidesteps yearning for nationalist policies that lead to even more harm.
As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?
Four hundred and forty men and boys were killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster, with the youngest victims aged just 14 years old.
Focusing solely on humans at the expense of other life in the aftermath of train derailments limits the effectiveness of our disaster response management.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Watts College, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Oceanography, University of Miami
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Visiting Scientist, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Public and International Affairs, former Director of the Center for Disaster Management, University of Pittsburgh
