Prepping for disaster recovery needs a plan, testing, and thinking about non-technical necessities like food and shelter for the recovery team. (A hurricane devastated an island that held two data ...

Recovery is the least understood (and least studied) part of the emergency management cycle with little systematic information about tracking progress geographically and over an extended time.

Heather Kelly, SR530 long-term recovery lead for the Snohomish County, Wash., Executive’s Office, provided me with their lessons learned to-date from the Oso mudslide. This event happened on March 22, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University will lead research to determine why some communities recover from natural disasters more quickly than others, an effort aimed at addressing the nation's ...

It was around this time 15 years ago that University of Delaware Assistant Professor Jennifer Trivedi was calling people she knew in Biloxi, Mississippi to see if they were evacuating the coast as ...

Stella Ladi received funding from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She is affiliated with Panteion University, Athens. Angie Gago received funding from the Grant “Democracy in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combination of photos shows areas affected by the earthquake-triggered tsunami which hit Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh ...

Thirty-two years after Hurricane Iniki made landfall on Kaua’i in 1992, few physical reminders remain of the storm’s destruction, but there are many reminders of the island’s resilience. They include ...

At the end of 2013, Indonesia commemorated the 9th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The calamity was unprecedented, the loss of life was staggering. Yet the worst brought ...

Congress and the Biden administration must take a different route as they seek a more equitable recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. As many warned early on, the pandemic economic collapse is worsening ...