Purpose The human efforts to be prepared better for the future challenges of natural
disasters go back ages. Natural disasters occur when a natural event, such as an …

The purpose of this article is to investigate how vulnerability and resilience have been
constructed in the disaster literature to unpack the resilience–vulnerability nexus. This study …

Other writers have cataloged the many contributions to understanding and practice that
disaster studies have produced over the years, many of them, and the earliest, coming from …

Objective: Studying the coupling relationship between multidimensional poverty and
geological disaster risk is a beneficial exploration for the collaborative promotion of disaster …

This book shows how the adoption of the neoliberal development model has increased the
social vulnerability to disasters, with a special focus on Mexico, a country which once was …

Many African towns and cities face a range of hazards, which can best be described as
representing a “spectrum of risk” of events that can cause death, illness or injury, and …

A extensão universitária é o espaço-tempo propício para a articulação direta entre
conhecimento científico e sociedade, vinculando inovação e compromisso social da …

O aumento na ocorrência e de frequência de secas extremas tem ocasionado o aumento no
número de desastres associados a incêndios florestais em todo o planeta. Neste artigo …

After thirty-two years of the devastating earthquake in Mexico City in 1985, the city was again
shaken by the consequences of the 7.1 Mw earthquake that struck central Mexico on …

Risks pertaining to small-scale recurring disasters are generally not considered by
emergency management policies. While their impacts are not immediately recognisable …