Documents and publications

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.

This study introduces an equity-sensitive framework in a Philippines case study that considers inequities in exposure and vulnerability, demonstrating how these inequities compound into well-being risks.

This study develops a machine learning-based wildfire susceptibility model for Germany, using data between 2003 and 2023, to identify the dominant wildfire predictors and create monthly susceptibility maps.

This report explores how climate risks could affect the environment, economies, societies and politics of the countries of the Nile Basin and the political relations between them.

This study investigates the impact of workplace heat and cold on work time loss.

This study compares the May 2024 storm with geomagnetic data from the September 2017, October 2003, March 1989 as well as September 1859 Carrington event to demonstrate the differences in magnitude, timings and latitudinal extent between these events.