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The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in 2016 adversely affected Vietnam particularly the Mekong River Delta (MRD), where more than 90% of the country’s rice export is produced annually. During that time, salinity intrusion and drought significantly

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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 report provides a framework for assessing disaster risk management policies in cities. It also presents the results of assessments and locally tailored policy recommendations in five cities of different institutional, geographic, socio-economic and

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This Handbook provides an overview of the country’s government, geography and demographics, social and cultural practices, as well as details its history of natural disasters, and the current state of its disaster risk and response management.
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This video is part of a package of research products on this topic: Research Report, Summary Research Report, Research-into-Practice Brief and Summary and Webinar.
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The project Sheltering From a Gathering Storm has generated information on the costs and benefits of climate resilient shelter designs. This information is purposed to contribute to transformative changes necessary to make communities more resilient to

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This research project investigates the critical factors for educational continuity in urban floods in South and Southeast Asia.
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This brief explores the evidence and how it shows that flood (and associated hazard) affected people are not helpless bystanders but active first-responders and change agents.

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