WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper on understanding linked climate and weather hazards and the challenges to federal emergency ...

Disasters hurt the poor and vulnerable the most. More than one-third of the world’s poor live in multi-hazard zones, and low-income countries account for more than 70 percent of the world’s disaster ...

National strategic planning is a key tool for accelerating the evolution of an EPIC Response: Governments should periodically, approximately every five years, develop interlocking national strategic ...