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This paper systematically reviews 147 articles on pre-disaster planning and preparedness for floods and droughts in developed countries.

Resilience against infrastructure failure is essential for ensuring the health and safety of communities during and following natural hazard situations. Understanding how natural hazards impact society in terms of economic cost, recovery time, and damages

The urban reconstruction principles, goals and basic policies mentioned in this document will be used to implement programs and refine its reconstruction guidelines and plans when Tokyo suffers damage from natural disaster.

This report was presented as a statement before the Committee on Homeland Security. It discusses, among other things, FEMA’s progress and challenges related to disaster resilience, response, recovery, and workforce management.

This paper will examine the cases on how different groups of people, community disaster governance from gender and diversity perspective.

The White Paper on Disaster Management in Japan 2018 provides an overview of current disaster management measures in Japan.

The 2019 CoreLogic® Storm Surge Report provides an annual evaluation of the number of single-family and, new this year, multifamily residential homes in the United States that are vulnerable to storm surge in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Basin. All

The Cabridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has collected data from households in the Philippines affected by the devastating 2013 Typhoon Haiyan to assess whether those with mutual microinsurance life cover policies were able to recover more effectively than those without.