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Urban centres can be among the world's most healthy places to live and work – but many are among the least. How healthy they are is powerfully

For the billion urban dwellers living in informal settlements, there are many risks. Those who are more susceptible to these risks, or less able to

Whose lives are most at risk in urban areas of the global South – for instance from preventable diseases and disasters? And what are the most serious

To help disseminate public warnings, alerting authorities have long relied on commercial media, such as newswires, broadcast radio and television

Droughts are complicated, often more human-caused than precipitation-caused (Wilhite and Glantz, 1985). Nonetheless, precipitation and water certainly

The media, and even scientific publications, continue to be packed with rhetoric that low-lying islands will sink, drown, or disappear due the seas

After a disaster, we often hear about the need to bounce back, to return to normal, and to restore the pre-disaster state. How sensible is this?

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We hear so much these days about climate change, often with suggestions of it inevitably causing more disasters. Science, however, paints a much more

How many deaths have been caused by earthquakes throughout history? Tens of millions? Millions? Hundreds of thousands? The answer, perhaps, is close

This past March, Peru was hit by devastating floods. Media reports led with death tolls and declarations of states of emergency. People volunteered