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These resources offer insights, best practices, and research aimed at mitigating the impact of disasters. Whether you're seeking the latest research, policy recommendations, or case studies, this library supports knowledge sharing and informed decision-making in building safer, more resilient communities.

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Knowing what the weather will do: A guide for practitioners on impact-based early warning thumbnail
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This guidebook provides a novel approach and methodology for designing and implementing Impact-based early warning (IbEW) systems. it guides the co-development and integration of risk knowledge on hazards, exposure, vulnerabilities

United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
Uncertainty, pastoral knowledge and early warning: a review of drought management in the drylands, with insights from northern Kenya thumbnail
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This study assesses global inequalities in exposure to compound precipitation extremes (CPEs), defined as the concurrent occurrence of short-duration, high-intensity 1-day precipitation and prolonged 5-day precipitation.

npj Natural Hazards (Nature)
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The research seeks to address the question, what are the potential global targets forevaluating proactive drought preparedness and resilience that can be standardized and monitored to improve coordination among countries and international organizations.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Automatic sentiment analysis of citizen comments: the case of the Albania earthquake
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This study investigates how crowdsourced user comments collected through the LastQuake app can be used to improve situational awareness following an earthquake.

GeoHazards (MDPI)
Mental health integration guide: a tool for insurers thumbnail
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Developed by the UNEP, the Mental Health Integration Guide: A Tool for Insurers provides a practical framework to help insurers understand and address the links between climate change, mental health and social resilience.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Shaking urban crime: Earthquakes, stress and crime in neighbourhoods thumbnail
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This study analyses the impact of the earthquakes that occurred on the 7 and 19 September 2017, with magnitudes of 8.2 and 7.1 respectively, on crime patterns in Mexico City.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
How to better link landslide inventory mapping with loss and damage reporting thumbnail
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As part of the process to strengthen national capabilities in tracking landslide losses and damages, this research presents the result of an initiative by UNDRR and its partners to encourage the development of data standards and methodological frameworks.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Integrated methodology for environmental-urban diagnosis and prioritization of drainage interventions to enhance urban flood resilience thumbnail
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This study proposes an integrated environmental-urban diagnostic methodology that defines objective functions, identifies priority intervention areas, clarifies the role of drainage projects, and enables the measurement of intervention efficiency.

Nature Scientific Reports