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Climate-related disaster events are common phenomena in Southeast Asia, particularly in the low-lying major cities of Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. With this in mind, this project intended to link loss and damage (L&D), disaster

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This document is part of a series of knowledge products produced through the Alliance Working Groups, with financial support from EU Humanitarian Aid. The series are key steps in driving an agenda of change, when it comes to:

  1. Developing a better shared
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This is the third edition of the Suffering in Silence report. The aim of this report is to highlight those humanitarian crises in 2018 that, though large, have received little public attention. In the final section, it also addresses the question of how

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This report presents estimates of the financial impact of major displacement crises in eight countries: the Central African Republic, Haiti, Libya, the Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Ukraine and Yemen. Of these countries, Haiti, the Philippines and

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Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure

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This project aims to contribute to sustainable urban development by creating scientific tools to forecast the future state of urban water environments.
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This study uses the mixed-method approach to social network analysis in evaluating the network structure of Philippine disaster management and its implications for disaster governance. 

Disasters are the litmus test of governance. The inherent complexity

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This study aimed to understand the impact of Typhoon Haiyan on health staff at a personal and work level when the storm hit the Philippines in 2013. The three main aspects reported as influencing staff were accessibility, safety and emotional aspects.

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