Documents and publications

The study investigates flash floods and waterlogging risks in Chittagong City, Bangladesh, highlighting urban planning failures and climate change impacts. It advocates sustainable urban governance and resilience-building to reduce future disaster risks.

Major emerging infectious diseases often trigger the “medical run”, presenting significant challenges to health systems. This research aims to construct an element system of hospital resilience to medical run in major emerging infectious diseases.

This report examines the role of community-led climate adaptation in enhancing the inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability of cities, focusing on rapidly growing informal settlements.

This toolkit brings together hands-on resources to support practitioners in implementing conflict-sensitive, effective, and sustainable anticipatory action in fragile, conflict- and violence-affected (FCV) contexts.

This paper provides a detailed description of the practical application of a trauma-informed research approach taken in a study exploring community-led self-organising before, during and after disasters in New South Wales, Australia.

This National Briefing on Societal Resilience provides provides highlights from and focuses on the key issues discussed by participants at the 3rd National Conference on Societal Resilience which took place at The University of Manchester in March 2025.

This study examines the effectiveness of vegetative nature-based coastal solutions (NBCS) for mitigating coastal flood risk. The findings suggest that reliance on vegetative NBCS may not be sustainable for long-term coastal flood risk management.

This study investigates the impacts of wildfires on down-stream flood discharge in 30 Californian watersheds, finding positive correlations were between the enhancement in discharge volume and the percentage of burned watershed area.