Disaster Resilience

Anticipatory actions (AAs) are pre-emptive measures taken to mitigate the impacts of disasters based on forecasted hazards.

On 6 February 2023 a magnitude 7.8 earthquake affected the border region between Türkiye and Syria, killing an estimated 55,000 people and causing damage to more than 4 mil

Heat hazard, in the form of heat waves principally affecting larger urban areas, has evolved into one of the most deadly hazard types, especially in the Global North that tends to se

The economic and humanitarian impacts of tropical cyclones across the small island developing states (SIDS) in the Caribbean are very high; and greater than those of larger mainland cou

South-Limburg suffers from plvial floods ad flash floods occasionally. The last floods in 2021 caused immense damage in the river Geul.

Generative AI has been used in many applications such as text generation and image generation such as (chatgpt, dall-e etc.) but can they generate realistic hazard scenario

Climate change leads to a increased frequency of extreme precipitation and prolonged drought period, both of which have a severe impact on the landslide initiation as they

Unsafe houses and natural hazards are increasingly common threats for citizens of low-income countries.

Urban systems consist of multiple interrelated components, including physical and social structures, among them people, organizations,

“Nature-based solutions” (NBS) or “building with nature” have received global attention as a multidimensional approach to reduce impacts of climate change and associated meteorological disaster ris