1) How did the natural disaster trigger event, man-made hazards, and vulnerability factors impact risk assessment and communication capacity and heighten the risk to environmental health?

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the Romans had no clue that such a thing could ever happen. Therefore, they had no means to prevent the disaster that killed the flourishing ...

Over the next few decades, climate change will pose new threats around the world. Researchers from Climate Analytics (Berlin) ...

KARACHI: Environmental and climate activists have demanded that mandatory environmental impact assessments be conducted ...

TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has already trained 831 local government ...

A comprehensive update to NOAA’s Billion Dollar Disasters mapping tool now includes U.S. census tract data – providing many users with local community-level awareness of hazard risk, exposure and ...

3. Achieving accountability through risk assessments Disaster risk reduction is an endeavour that requires input from the whole of society.

For more information on this research see: Drought Vulnerability Curves Based on Remote Sensing and Historical Disaster Dataset. Remote Sensing, 2023,15 (858):858.

The Federal Highway Administration started requiring vulnerability assessments of new bridges in 1994, the NTSB said. The Key Bridge was built before that requirement.

NTSB recommends vulnerability assessments on 68 bridges following Key Bridge collapse A risk assessment could have prevented the Key Bridge collapse, the NTSB said.