A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental...
Threatening event, or probability of occurrence of a potentially damaging phenomenon within a given time period and area. (Source: EM-DAT ). Natural hazards are...
There are a range of challenges, such as climate change, unplanned-urbanization, under-development/poverty as well as the threat of pandemics, that will shape ...