The next time a tsunami strikes in Asia, a flood ravages Africa or planning is made to mitigate the impact of potential hurricanes in the United States, disaster managers will have a new tool to ...

The World Bank Group works with the government of India on implementation of its National Disaster Management Plan, with assessing risks and incorporating disaster risk information into development ...

Professor SAKURAI Aiko of the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies has a unique background, pursuing a career in international cooperation before expanding her research to include ...

Since the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, which led to nearly 73,000 deaths and caused damages to over 570,000 houses, the Bank has been supporting the Government of Pakistan to shift from a response-based ...

Panaji: State govt has decided to develop a comprehensive web-based disaster management plan to enable real-time incident management, emergency response coordination, resource tracking, reporting, and ...

The Center for Geographic Information Science and Technology conducts a wide varietry of research related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Research. See Dr. Tomaszewski's book ...