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Explore a comprehensive collection of publications, reports, and documents that focus on disaster risk and resilience.

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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Policies and plans

Zimbabwe: National climate policy

The National Climate Policy formulation was based on and guided by robust science, stakeholder consultations, review of the current plans, strategies and policies, legal and regulatory analysis.
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From rest to eruption: How we should anticipate volcanic eruptions

The author proposes that a systematic integration of a detailed knowledge of the eruptive history of a volcano and monitoring data on its current state of activity, is the main way to forecast future eruptions.
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Planned relocation may reduce communities’ future exposure to coastal inundation but effect varies with emission scenario and geography

This study assesses risk of future coastal flooding before and after moving, for three dates and three emissions scenarios, for 17 communities from a global dataset.
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Reviewing the progress of infectious disease early warning systems and planning for the future

This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of infectious disease early warning systems, with a particular emphasis on assessing the development of these systems in the recent five years (2019 to 2023).
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Climate Vulnerability Assessment: Alliance for root causes and opportunities

This study aims to identify the nature and character of risks, both modeled and perceived, and then propose cost-effective adaptation practices that can be implemented by local partners.
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Flood-related hazard criteria during the human evacuation of underground spaces through stairs: a state-of-the-art review

This state-of-the-art review presents a comprehensive analysis of the available literature that focuses on defining instability criteria for hazard assessment during human evacuation of underground flooded stairs.
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2024 State of climate services

The 2024 edition of the report describes the current state of climate services while also examining and assessing the progress that has been made during the last five years.
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Characteristics, drivers, and predictability of flood events in the Tana River Basin, Kenya

This study offers insights on the potential for GloFAS to complement existing forecasting and FldEWS across the region, operated by national and the regional forecasting agencies

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