Several disasters over the past number of years have exposed serious weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the emergency management capabilities within the global communities‎.‎ Events such as BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill ‎(‎2010‎)‎‎,‎ Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster ‎(‎2011‎)‎‎,‎ earthquake in Haiti ‎(‎2010‎)‎‎,‎ Hurricane Sandy ‎(‎2013‎)‎‎,‎ and Typhoon Haiyan ‎(‎2013‎)‎ highlight the devastating effects that man‎-made and natural disasters have on the population and infrastructure‎.‎ These examples highlight how hyper‎-risks emerge from our hyper‎-connected world pointing to the requirement for enabling resilience to support disaster management‎.‎ Resilience‎,‎ resilient communities‎,‎ and resilient livelihoods are becoming a focus of local‎,‎ regional‎,‎ national and global governments‎,‎ and agencies‎.‎ Researchers along with disaster management agencies are seeking to address the underlying fragilities that turn shocks and stresses into crises and how to enable resilience to support risk‎,‎ crisis‎,‎ and disaster management‎.‎