'The challenges posed by risky decisions are well documented. These decisions become
even more daunting when they must be made in a midst of a crisis. Using the European …

This report examines risk governance and how this might be understood in the context of
natural hazards in the European Union. The report is a key deliverable from Work Package 2 …

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human
lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and …

In recent years, several major disasters, crises, and catastrophes have occurred in the
United States and around the world. The September 11 attacks are the most consequential …

When York University launched a postsecondary program in the then-nascent discipline of
disaster and emergency management in 2005, Canada had only one other undergraduate …

Disaster Policy and Politics combines evidence-based research with mini-case studies of
recent events to demonstrate the fundamental principles of emergency management and to …

Crisis management relates to a process of how we prepare for, respond to and learn from
the effects of a wide range of major failures that impact upon groups of people, from …

Catastrophic events are increasingly in the public eye, fuelling a burgeoning but complex
field of interdisciplinary research and policy-making worldwide. Only in recent years …

Names: Herwig, Alexia, editor.| Simoncini, Marta, editor. Title: Law and the management of
disasters: the challenge of resilience/Edited by Alexia Herwig and Marta Simoncini …

Integrated disaster risk management (IDRiM) is a lofty and ambitious goal. It would bridge
scales from the global to the local, involving a wide range of actors or stakeholders. It would …