The National Science Foundation awarded $16.5 million to the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center for a five year project to study the challenges in disaster planning and recovery with a ...

A new report, coauthored by Northwestern University faculty including Professors Emeritus Stephen Carr and William Miller, ...

Ilham Siddiq survived the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami and is now using his firsthand disaster knowledge to evaluate the effectiveness of recovery policies. Siddiq, a civil ...

If you’re conducting scholarly research in disaster science, you can expect to spend weeks or months reading the related studies others have published and analyzing their significance to your own work ...

When environmental hazards strike, the damage is usually counted in numbers: how many people died, how many homes were destroyed, how many people were displaced, and how much money it will take to ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Correction: The original version of this article misspelled Jane Faulkner’s name in a sentence. Also, the original version of a photo caption for this article incorrectly stated that Los Angeles Mayor ...

I’m a psychologist and an accidental disaster mental health specialist. Like many of us in this field, I arrived sideways through lived experience—in response to pressing needs in my community after ...

With hurricane season in full bloom and the additional prospect of natural disasters, the importance for companies to have disaster data plans in place is paramount. Companies that fail to make ...