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Building centaur responders: is emergency management ready for artificial intelligence?

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract This article examines the preparedness of emergency management (EM) for addressing questions pertaining to artificial intelligence (AI), encompassing its benefits to EM missions, the potential biases, the societal impacts, and more. We pinpoint two key shortcomings in early EM research on AI: (i) insufficient discussion of both AI's history ...
Christopher Whyte   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local responses to the threats of dramatic crises: do institutional leaders make a difference, and if so, how?

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract This study examines the complexity of disaster response management and the role of local institutional leadership. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the May 2023 floods in two Emilia‐Romagna provinces in Italy, it explores how local leadership influences the outcomes of crisis management within a shared institutional and hazard context ...
Giliberto Capano, Alexandra D′Angelo
wiley   +1 more source

On unstable ground: gendered vulnerabilities and community perceptions of landslides in rural Uganda

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract Despite a growing body of literature linking transnational sex and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among women across Sub‐Saharan Africa, knowledge gaps remain regarding the environmental or climate‐related drivers of these phenomena.
Julia K. Klayman, Kelly F. Austin
wiley   +1 more source

Post‐disaster deterritorialisation and ‘roof‐centred’ recovery: enduring policy impacts on marginalised groups in Brazil

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract This study critically examines post‐disaster recovery policies in Brazil and their short‐ and long‐term effects on marginalised populations, particularly those living in informal or precarious housing. Drawing on a mixed‐methods investigation conducted in collaboration with the Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, the research analyses multi‐
Augusto Cesar Oyama   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Spatial Asymmetries in the Lesser Antilles

open access: yesInternational Journal of Climatology, Volume 46, Issue 8, 30 June 2026.
Rainfall is not proportional to the Saffir‐Simpson wind‐based categories. Lower category tropical cyclones (TS, H1, H2 and H3) can generate more intense rainfall than H4 and H5. Rainfall is asymmetric; as a tropical cyclone intensifies or weakens, the location of peak rainfall shifts.
Catherine Nabukulu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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