The World Bank Group focuses on resilience solutions that can be replicated and scaled across countries facing similar risks, combining financing, knowledge, policy reform, and private capital. Cities ...

I have had the opportunity to contribute chapters to textbooks written on a variety of topics. While I’m not an academic, I have had practical experience in various subjects that are of importance to ...

Two recent major disaster events in Palu in September and Lombok in August have tested current disaster risk governance in Indonesia. Thousands of people were killed and displaced as a result of these ...

Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...

A worker in Thailand clears a road after a major flood. Disasters can threaten the infrastrucutre, investment climate, and human capital that jobs depend on. Photo credit: Adobe Stock At the World ...