Nature Geoscience spoke with Jonatan Lassa, a scientist working on risk and disaster governance at Earth Sciences New Zealand; Carina Fearnley, an interdisciplinary scientist researching natural hazards and warning systems at University College London (UK); and Jeroen Warner, a social scientist studying disaster governance from Wageningen University (Netherlands), about how institutions, communities, and decision-making processes shape the effectiveness of natural hazard management and disaster mitigation.
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Ortiz-Guerrero, C. Towards effective institutional hazard management. Nat. Geosci. 18, 1084–1087 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01827-9
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