Risk management is the process of identifying potential risks and/or harms and creating a plan to prevent the risk from happening or reduce the risk as much as possible. There are different types of ...

usiness firms use a financial analysis technique called asset vs. liability management (ALM) to mitigate risk due to a mismatch in their assets and liabilities. A mismatch occurs when assets and ...

Mounting evidence suggests that natural hazards are becoming more costly to businesses and individuals located in harm’s way. Last year, some 14 states suffered more than 30 tornadoes apiece, ...

The new capability enables analysis of dozens of natural hazards and offers more than 100 adaptation strategies * Feature ...

In 2020, the State Department created a Climate Security and Resilience program. The program assesses the risk natural hazards pose to each of its 294 locations around the world. Its first risk review ...

I was speaking to a group of aspiring young entrepreneurs recently, and I asked them to identify the qualities that they thought were important when launching a new venture. Creativity was the first ...

Hydro-climatic hazards don’t need to become disasters: Hydro-climatology looks at the interaction between weather, watersheds, and water. Hydro-climatic extremes, such as periods of abnormal dryness ...