Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

A new peer-reviewed article published in Big Earth Data highlights the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in disaster management. The study ...

Intervention to address disasters has evolved through time into a complex policy subsystem, and disaster policy is implemented through a set of functions known as emergency management and response.

Prepare, mitigate, respond, recover. It’s a cycle I have been through thousands of times. Navigating hundreds of disasters and crises ranging from small to seemingly impossible is all part of the job ...

Emergency Management (EM) Practitioners and Academicians have been investigating key elements to professionalize and standardize the EM career field for over twenty years. This paper presents findings ...

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has launched a provincial investigation in the eThekwini Municipality aimed at addressing the disproportionate impact of disasters on vulnerable populations.