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Globally, flooding accounts for the greatest amount of loss and damage out of all natural hazards. Indeed, between 1998 and 2017 there were 3,148 floods around the world, directly affecting over two billion people.
Within the UK, the latest figures show flooding is the major hazard within the British Isles. One in six homes in the UK are at serious r…
Over the past decade, the world has watched as hurricane and typhoon season comes with increasing intensity and devastation. During a particularly deadly span of several months during 2021, broadcasters shared a horrifying vision of families being shattered by the impacts of changing climate patterns, with women and children bearing the brunt of the ons…
The CORE Bangladesh project aims to develop coordinating capabilities in flood-risk management for the urban/peri-urban poor in Bangladesh. It is lead by Bangladeshi and Dutch stakeholders and is composed of different components. In this interview, Professor M. Shah Alam Khan explains how the component of amphibious housing can help populations in…
The devastating earthquake on Friday 8 September 2023 in Morocco took the country – and world – by surprise. At 6.8 magnitude, it is the strongest earthquake to hit the country since 1900 and has highlighted major weaknesses in the country’s infrastructure, particularly in rural communities. Unfortunately, as we have already seen this year in Türki…
Recovery should focus on repairing the urban fabric, rather than its individual elements
The L'Aquila earthquake was the first Italian seismic disaster in almost a century to have an epicentre close to a major concentration of population (in fact, it was 3.4 km from the city's geographical centre). Despite being of moderate power, the tremors did a hug…
How many deaths have been caused by earthquakes throughout history? Tens of millions? Millions? Hundreds of thousands? The answer, perhaps, is close to zero.
This response sounds odd. We remember Haiti’s devastation in 2010. Christchurch, New Zealand has not recovered from 2011. Italy, too frequently, has been in the news as rescuers go in after tremor…
The scene is as familiar as it is tragic: A devastating hurricane or earthquake strikes a populated area in a poor country, inflicting a high number of casualties, overwhelming the resources and capacity of rescue teams and hospital emergency rooms. First responders must resort to “triage” – the medical strategy of maximizing the efficient use of existi…