By Duncan Mboyah The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has called for a shift from reactive to anticipatory actions in management of drought, floods, conflict, and ...

Lt-Gen Inam Haider Malik has stressed the need for developing appropriate financial mechanisms providing required financial resources to most affected countries in dealing with the impacts of climate ...

Wood’s Homes is celebrating the grand opening of Cottage E, a new state-of-the-art mental-health facility designed to support at-risk children and youth. Wood’s Homes CEO Bjorn Johansson says ...

These are securities that protect issuers, mostly insurers and governments, from severe losses in the event of a natural disaster by paying out when certain conditions are met. In fact ...

The site of the once-legendary mall now hosts FEMA and other agencies assisting fire victims. The Disaster Recovery Center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the next several weeks.

public policy effectively subsidized the development of disaster risk in what Davis calls the “firebelt suburbs” of California). Ecology should doom development in a place like the Santa ...

Flying in from Belize to Los Angeles yesterday, I was immediately confronted with the devastating fires sweeping across the region. My house in Topanga Canyon was evacuated, so I was not able to ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Sunday he thinks the Los Angeles County wildfires will be the worst natural disaster in U.S. history “in terms of just the costs associated with it, in terms of ...

The country ranked sixth on the Disaster Risk Index compiled by global telecommunications company Intersec late last year, which was based on a per capita comparison of the deaths, injuries and ...

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He holds an A.A.S. in Aviation Maintenance Technology, a B.A. in History, and a M.S. in Environmental Policy & Management ... include foreign exchange risk and political risk.