International Recovery Platform

This volume presents eighteen case studies of natural disasters from Australia, Europe, North America and developing countries. By comparing the impacts, it seeks to identify what moves people to adapt, which adaptive activities succeed and which fail

This book addresses the perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. It offers vital lessons to practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk management and

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 95, August 2013:

This issue covers articles related to disaster risk reduction and the floods in Uttarakhand. It is intended to national authorities and international organizations such as World Bank, Asian Development