EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mongolia is a landlocked country whose more than 3 million people are spread unevenly across its landmass. It is very susceptible to climate change that exacerbates already...
About the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance Overview The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM) is a United States...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the last two decades, India has developed two complementary lines of effort in disaster management (DM). The first one significantly reorganized and improved its domestic...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Thailand is exposed to flooding, landslides, drought, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, forest fires, and epidemics. Thailand is also exposed to technological hazards such as...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Indonesia is located along the Pacific Ring of Fire and faces many natural threats including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, flooding, and droughts. The country records...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vietnam is one of the most hazard-prone countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. With an extensive coastline of 3,260 kilometers (km), 2025.67 miles (mi) the country is regularly...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Philippines’ location on the “Pacific Ring of Fire” and along the Pacific typhoon belt mean that the country experiences many forms of natural disasters such as typhoons,...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Chile is home to 18.3 million people. It is a society built on a market economy and participatory republican government structure, and it is a member of the Organization for...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Despite its location in a region hard-hit by disasters of varying scale, the Republic of Singapore is somewhat insulated from natural disasters. The country is nominally exposed to...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (hereafter Pakistan) is affected by climate change, increased urbanization, environmental degradation, and increasingly severe and larger scale...