The impact of disasters causes disruptions in the flow within supply chains (SCs) and negatively affects operations performance. Therefore, companies need to implement effective proactive and reactive strategies to minimise the impacts caused by these events. This thesis aims to contribute to developing prepared and responsive SCs to deal with disaster impacts. The research adopts the systematic literature review and survey methods. In the review phase, it is possible to highlight the descriptive analyses of publications through a bibliometric analysis, as well as content analysis of the documents. The main results of this phase are the elaboration of a taxonomy, a research agenda, and a framework. The taxonomy, specifically, presents the main disaster impacts on SCs (e.g., price instability) and the respective countermeasure strategies that were categorised into reactive (e.g., virtual markets) and proactive (e.g., digitalisation). The results of the literature review are insights for the development of the survey. Using structural equation modelling on survey data from Brazilian professionals, the model assesses whether the impacts of disasters negatively affect SC performance and also the role of digitalisation and localisation in minimizing the impacts of disasters. In general, the research results indicate that there is a negative impact of disasters on the SCs and that digitalisation and localisation have a moderating effect on the relationship between the main constructs. The evaluation of other proactive strategies and the development of mathematical models to evaluate the topic are suggested as future research.