Much of the MGEO disaster resilience thematic line focuses on hazards and risk, especially on relevant concepts and different modelling approaches. Together this builds the ability to assess multi-hazard risk in a given area, and to model specific hazard processes. The attention of this present course is on actual disaster events, specifically on how to anticipate them to minimize the adverse consequences, and on how to improve post-event response and recovery. In terms of preparing for an actual event we will focus on the concept of early action/ anticipatory action, focusing on the different actors and their roles, but also relevant early warning systems that provide information on impending, in particular hydrometerological events. The technical and organisational aspects of converting early warning information into impact assessments will be addressed, and how such information is used in preestablished trigger models that set in motion last-minute activities on the ground that can help communities prepare for the disaster event, and reduce losses. Immediate disaster response, in particular damage assessment, is already addressed in the Introduction to Hazard, Risk & Resilience course. Here we will focus on the subsequent disaster recovery, addressing how affected communities can learn from the event and build-back-better, and what role different stakeholders play in this process. We will further review how geoinformation, in particular remote sensing data, can be used to assess and characterise both physical and functional recovery.