Extreme weather events and their impacts have dominated headlines throughout 2021 and
2022. The emphasis on the weather in reports of the events, often discussed in the context of …

On a global scale, from 2005 to 2019, there were 275 high-magnitude, low-frequency
disasters that involved 14,172 fatalities and four million affected people. Similar patterns …

The Anthropocene captures more than a debate over how to address the problems of
climate change and global warming. Increasingly, it is seen to signify the end of the modern …

Vulnerability is complex because it involves many characteristics of people and groups that
expose them to harm and limit their ability to anticipate, cope with, and recover from harm …

Floods constitute one of the most damaging natural hazards in the world. Seasonal and
extraordinary rainfall recurrently trigger different types of floods in Costa Rica. An integrated …

River floods frequently occur when tropical cyclones hit land. Nonetheless, systematic, long-
term discharge data remain rather scarce in many tropical countries, which prevent proper …

Abstract In this Special Issue introductory paper, we present the Tomorrow's Cities Decision
Support Environment (TCDSE). As the negative impacts of natural hazards continue to …

Disaster studies is faced with a fascinating anomaly: frequently it claims to be critical and
innovative, as suggested by the so‐called vulnerability paradigm that emerged more than 40 …

Abstract The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR) is the
guiding international policy structure for disaster risk reduction activities, shaping DRR …

This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster
scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be …