Disasters can occur in our natural environment, as with hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, fires and the like; or they can be humanly or mechanically generated, as with mass shootings, active ...

For example, the Himalayan region in South Asia is densely populated ... remoteness and a sparse population density), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme implemented a community-based water ...

There's a natural human urge to rely on the ... that we built as insurance against disaster had the opposite effect. Hurricane Katrina is a great example. Over the past century, the levees built ...

human decisions can turn a problem into a catastrophe. Another case in point is the episode about the Texas blackout of 2021. It begins with a natural disaster this time: a polar vortex that ...