The development literature on hazards and disasters indicates a visible paradigm shift from
hazard assessment to vulnerability analysis and building community resilience. This shift …

What are the practices of policy making? In this paper, we seek to identify and understand
them by attending to one of the principal artefacts–the document–through which they are …

This pioneering study explores the geospatial and temporal patterns of natural and human-
induced disasters from 1900 to 2024, providing essential insights into their global …

Historic centres are cultural, social and economical resources for communities, but also
fragile areas that have often been damaged or destroyed by earthquakes. The main …

Current understanding of disaster risk reduction (DRR) concurs that, when provided the right
education, children have the potential to reduce their own vulnerability and the vulnerability …

Adaptation to the adverse impacts of climate change has been recognized as a priority area
for national and international policy. The findings of the Fourth Assessment Report of the …

Abstract The Menoreh Mountains in Yogyakarta are severely affected by landslides. Due to
the high population densities, mass movements are generally damaging and fatal. More …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a continual challenge since 2020, and it continues to
impact people and industries as a disaster caused by a biological hazard. This study …

The objective of analyzing hazard and risk in an area is to utilize the result in selecting
appropriate landslide risk reduction strategies. However, this does not happen always, and …

A comprehensive data set of extreme hydrological events (EHEs)—floods and droughts,
consisting of 2,171 occurrences worldwide, during 1960‐2014 was compiled, and then their …