World Disaster Report 2010: Urban Risk

InaSAFE is free software that produces realistic natural hazard impact scenarios for better planning, preparedness and response activities. It provides a simple but rigorous way to combine data from scientists, local governments and communities to p...

Nepal is ranked the eleventh most at risk country with regard to earthquakes, and the thirtieth with respect to floods. The communities also suffered from other disasters such as fires, windstorm, thunderstorms and landslides. Having implemented sinc...

American Red Cross International Services Department (ISD) has piloted and refined applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to its core programming and response activities. In this time, we’ve found that the best tools and the most effc...