Abstract: This paper describes a novel data set and an accompanying online listing and interactive web map that displays university-based hazards and disaster research centers globally. To date, this initiative has led to the ...

Abstract: Although the need for cultural competence among healthcare service providers and other practitioners has long been recognized, there has been much less focus on this concept in the field of hazards and disaster research. ...

Abstract: Reducing the potential impacts from a future disaster can be accomplished through decreasing the hazard exposure and reducing the community’s vulnerability. Moreover, communities have both physical and social vulnerabilities ...