Disaster risk and school infrastructure: What we do and do not know

This page in: Français Credit: Tracy Ben/ Shutterstock “At 14:28:04 on May 12, 2008, an 8.0 earthquake struck suddenly, shaking the earth, with mountains and rivers shifted, devastated, and parted…

Sameh Wahba, Luis Benveniste |
Disaster Risk Management, Education, Infrastructure & Public-Private Partnerships, Urban Development

Are we listening to our ancestors’ warnings?

Also available in: Russian The “miracle pine, ” a 250-year-old tree that survived the 2011 tsunami in Japan, has been preserved as a memorial to the 19, 000 victims of the disaster. (Photo via…

Ko Takeuchi |
Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Urban Development, Water