Although the level of knowledge of both male and female respondents in DRR issues is not different, many males were found to be still confused about procedures for raising disaster awareness.
In terms of preparing cities to be as disaster-resilient as possible, the UN's office for disaster risk reduction launched its Making Cities Resilient campaign in 2010, urging local governments to raise disaster resilience awareness among citizens, invest in risk-reduction activities, and build more safely.
Negroni Week was founded by Imbibe to raise disaster relief for the American Red Cross after the Oklahoma tornado in 2013.
Relief organizations say the discrepancies underscore the pivotal role the media plays in spurring fund raising after disasters.
Meanwhile, if the last several decades are any indication, whatever Clinton does will involve extraordinarily diligent-but-unglamorous work, coupled with occasional hair-raising disasters, which she will overcome with a steely resolve that will make the world swoon.
This process of population and development growth that influences disaster frequency and magnitude is known as "expanding the bull's-eye effect". It isn't just the population increase that is important in raising the disaster potential, but also how the population and built environment is distributed across a landscape.
4 44 p.m.: This post was updated with more information about the city of Glendora raising its disaster alert level to red and canceling classes for one middle school.
The Red Cross has faced questions about $550m raised in disaster relief.
Critics of the Red Cross's post-earthquake work in Haiti argue that the half a billion dollars the organization raised for disaster relief was largely misspent.
But the critics noted that such oversight often involved the Red Cross's blood operations and did not address what it was doing with the money it raised for disaster relief.
In El Salvador, officials raised the disaster alert level to green, the lowest stage of alert, on November 5.
