Disaster Prevention and Response Archives

Why I Asked Ten Resilience Leaders to Write About El Niño Together

Cedrick Moriggi highlights the growing risks posed by the developing El Niño and the need for businesses to treat it as a strategic resilience issue rather than simply an operational risk. Drawing on insights from resilience leaders across major companies convened through the UNDRR Corporate Chief Resilience Officers Network, he argues that El Niño could

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Infrastructure Links Amplify Impacts

The authors develop a modelling framework to assess how natural hazards, intensified by climate change, propagate cascading failures across interdependent critical infrastructures. The framework is applied to interdependent power and water networks in North Italy under historical wind-gust conditions and under climate projections following Representative Concentration Pathways 4.5 and 8.5. The authors find that climate

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Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Management: Pathways for the Sendai Framework and Beyond

The article synthesises findings from the 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World, identifying key areas of attention for scientific research, policy, and practice to develop a more resilient and better prepared society. The authors find that most Sendai Framework targets remain unlikely to be met by 2030, with persistent

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Updating Mental Models of Risk

The authors argue that disasters are no longer isolated events but manifestations of an interconnected complex risk landscape in which cascading and compounding hazards interact across systems. Drawing on recent examples such as California’s year-round wildfires and Hurricane Helene’s inland flooding, they illustrate how overlapping shocks amplify vulnerability and strain governance capacities. They contend that

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The WorldRiskReport

The WorldRiskReport 2025 presents the WorldRiskIndex, which assesses disaster risk across 193 countries by combining exposure to natural hazards with societal vulnerability. The report identifies Asia, Africa, and the Americas as global risk hotspots, with the Philippines, India, and Indonesia ranking highest in overall risk. This edition focuses on flood risk, emphasizing that it is

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Positive Externalities in the Polycrisis: Effectively Addressing Disaster and Climate Risks for Generating Multiple Resilience Dividends

This paper argues that, in the context of the Polycrisis, further investment is urgently needed to address the underlying drivers of disaster and climate-related risks. The authors examine the state of arts of the Triple Dividend of Resilience (TDR) framework, a concept that suggests resilience investments yield not only risk reduction benefits from intervention investments,

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Cascading Hazards and Compound Disasters

This special issue examines how systemic risks unfold, interact, and escalate in diverse geographic and institutional contexts. It addresses the significance of adopting a broader systemic approach to understanding disaster risk, considering hazards, vulnerability, exposure, capacity, and cascading interactions. The contributions span a range of domains, from geomorphology and climate science to agriculture, infrastructure, and

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Interconnected Disaster Risks: Turning Over a New Leaf

The 2025 Interconnected Disaster Risks report, Turning Over a New Leaf, calls for transformative societal changes to address escalating global crises. It outlines five essential shifts: rethinking waste, realigning with nature, reconsidering responsibility, reimagining the future, and redefining value to prioritize planetary health over economic growth. The report introduces the Theory of Deep Change, advocating

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Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2024. Resilience Pays: Investing and Financing for Our Future

The GAR 2025 report examines the likely future impacts of the world’s costliest hazards by 2050, considering different demographic trends, urbanization patterns, and climate scenarios. Drawing on new modelling tools and dozens of global examples, it warns that continued risk creation will outpace our ability to reduce it unless disaster risk reduction is embedded into

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Navigating International Crises: The Evolving Challenges for Humanitarian Organizations

In this episode, Nate Hagens talks with Birgitte Bischoff, the European Regional Director for The Red Cross, about her vision for the future of humanitarian work and the challenges and opportunities for more proactive and prepared planning. They highlight the importance of individual volunteers, and the integration of a systems thinking approach at The Red

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