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Building Resilience Without Increasing Risk

ShelterBox responds all around the world when people have been displaced from their homes by a disaster. Since 2000 that has added up to...

Silence is not neutral: what crisis communication owes to the people it serves

In the hours after the attack on Utøya island on 22 July 2011, families across Norway were doing something that would become horribly familiar:...

Safeguarding Drinking Water in Disasters: Lessons in Rapid Response and Preparedness

As the data demonstrates, natural disasters are occurring with more frequency and greater intensity. When natural disasters or major emergencies occur, public focus naturally...

The Missing Layer in Flood Preparedness: Making Contents Protection a First-Order Objective

When we talk about floods, plans usually fixate on two bookends: mitigation infrastructure and post-event recovery. What too often gets lost in the middle...

Preventing Disasters Before They Happen: How LiDAR and Drones Are Rewriting Emergency Management

Emergency and disaster management has traditionally responded after incidents happen: a wildfire starts, a dam fails, a building falls, and agencies rush to respond....

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