Recovery

Disaster response and recovery are most effective when community-led networks combine central coordination with reciprocal collaboration, highlighting the critical role of local social infrastructure in resilience.

Using data from a sample of educated youth in Myanmar, this paper documents the relationship between various sources of chronic (ongoing and long-term) and acute (brief and intense) stressors with measures of hope and aspirations.

Flooding caused by extreme and prolonged rainfall is occurring more frequently across Europe. The way countries recover afterwards varies widely. These differences offer valuable lessons.

Study covering five major economies finds smaller communities face the longest economic recoveries, with damage persisting for up to four months.

Because Fukushima is considered a national responsibility, it is legally stipulated that all contaminated soil must be removed from the prefecture by 2045.

TC Alfred was the first tropical cyclone to impact the Brisbane region in more than 50 years. It made landfall as a category 1 but peaked as a category 4 off the coast and ranked among 2025’s costliest global disasters.

A review published in Civil Engineering Sciences examines how machine learning (ML) methods are being applied to support infrastructure recovery following natural hazards.

In Japan, it is not uncommon to see community disaster manuals stating, "Women are responsible for cooking" in times of such emergencies.