Editor's Note
There has never been a more urgent and opportune time for innovation in the field of disaster risk reduction and community resilience. As the newly released 2018 World Disasters Report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies illustrates, we live in a complex and evolving global risk landscape with ever-more protracted crises, climate change, uncontrolled urbanization, population growth, and the globalization-fuelled circulation of contagious disease. We also live in an era of deepening inequality which directly influences disaster outcomes.
