Recovery

The 'Stories After The Storms' report calls for clearer information and guidance for flood survivors in the immediate aftermath of floods, and greater recognition of the hidden psychological toll that they can take.

Policies that integrate disaster and climate risk into fiscal frameworks, such as adaptive social protection, risk-based budgeting, and contingent financing, can dramatically cut recovery time.

Between January 7 and 31, 2025, fourteen or more destructive fires affected Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura Counties.

With the future of federal resources still undetermined, recovery efforts may be more likely to replicate predisaster conditions, leaving housing and infrastructure exposed to the same risks.

This factsheet outlines the critical role of resilient housing reconstruction in disaster risk management within Fragile, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) contexts.

This work focuses on field monitoring of certain resilience parameters, such as the time for reconstruction and repairs from the effects of the 2019 earthquake that strongly affected the municipality of Le Teil, Rhone Valley, France.

This paper talks about a study mission that was carried out twenty years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (IOT) to assess the recovery of the affected regions, especially in the Eastern region of Sri Lanka.

Bor was entirely submerged when the White Nile broke its banks in late 2020. Although used to its seasonal overflow – bor means flood in the Dinka language – it was flooding people here had not seen for 60 years.