Abstract The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 triggered a rethinking of conventional disaster
risk reduction (DRR) based on engineering (grey) structures and routine techniques. The …

The increasing worldwide trend in disasters, aggravated by global environmental change,
calls for new approaches to hazard mitigation, as well as exposure and vulnerability …

Disasters and their devastating consequences are increasingly evident in the world.
Although nobody can prevent a hazard from occurring, individuals, societies, and …

Humanity faces a rising number of challenging disasters due to their increasing
unpredictability and scale. While large-scale engineering solutions have been the …

This study aimed at appraising the scientific research on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and
to identify their evolutionary trajectory between 1990 and 2019. This study used published …

After decades of neglect, the importance of protecting and improving ecosystems for
reducing disaster risk started receiving attention in the recent years. Until now the term …

Despite much attention on “ecosystem services” and their potential role in disaster risk
reduction (DRR), it is still unclear how ecosystem services can effectively be used for …

The Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI) is a global research network
and forum of disaster research institutes and organizations of disaster research for …

A disaster is generally defined as a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or
society that results in widespread damage and losses and that exceeds the ability of the …

The role of ecosystems has been recently acknowledged within the current global
framework for environmental management, disaster risk reduction, climate change …