Recovery

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.

Achieving social and environmental goals simultaneously is at the heart of the ambitious effort underway to restore the forests of Uljin, which in 2022 suffered the country’s second-worst wildfire on record.

Our analysis of New Zealand’s post-disaster reviews over the past decade shows the same problems – some dating back to 1986 – have been repeatedly identified but rarely translated into meaningful policy reform.