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Keep up to date with the latest research on disaster risk and resilience on the PreventionWeb knowledge base.

Explore cutting-edge research on disaster risk reduction and resilience through PreventionWeb's dedicated research briefs section. Our platform curates and highlights the most recent academic studies, providing valuable insights into disaster risk management. Each research brief distills key findings from peer-reviewed journals and academic publications.

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These briefs are designed to keep you informed about the latest scientific advances. Links to the full publications are always included, ensuring easy access to in-depth knowledge. Please note that this section exclusively features academic research, distinct from reports by international organizations or Non-Governmental Organisations.

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Extreme geohazards: Reducing the disaster risk and increasing resilience

While the probabilities of most natural hazards do not change much over time, the sensitivity of the built environment and the vulnerability of the embedded socio-economic fabric have increased rapidly. This science position paper, to be released 14 April, analyses the potential effects of low-probability high-impact events, which the authors argue may bring our already stressed global society beyond the limits of sustainability...
European Geosciences Union
Community Research and Development Information Service
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200th anniversary of Tambora eruption a reminder of volcanic perils

In January, the Global Volcano Model and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior issued a report on the hazards and risks of eruptions around the world. According to the January report, 90 percent of the volcano risk worldwide is in the five nations of Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Mexico and Ethiopia...
University of California, Berkeley
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Researchers connect climate change to food safety - Press release

In the future, in a changing climate, will we be able to continue eating safe vegetables and fruit or will this come under pressure? This is the question asked by the Ghent and Wageningen researchers who have brought together the latest information and scientific findings on the impact of climate change on food safety in a special issue...
Wageningen University and Research Centre
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Warming pushes Western U.S. toward driest period in 1,000 years

According to a new study, the results 'are extremely unfavorable for the continuation of agricultural and water resource management as they are currently practiced in the Great Plains and southwestern United States,' said David Stahle, of the University of Arkansas...
Earth Institute, the
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Estimating flood behaviour on a global scale

Characterising flood behaviour for any river in the world is now becoming a possibility, according to new research from the University of Bristol. The study, which deals with the difficulty of estimating flooding risk in data-poor areas, finds that it is now possible to make accurate predictions using only remotely sensed data...
University of Bristol
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Re-thinking climate interventions in fragile and conflict-affected states: Insights from Nepal

Research finds that climate adaptation programs that ignore the social and political context could be even worse than no adaptation at all… in fragile and vulnerable states facing the dual threat of climate change and insecurity, effective and well-targeted aid can play a key role in building resilience and shielding vulnerable households and communities from acute humanitarian crises...
New Security Beat
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Indonesia: Take a new look at markets to boost climate change adaptation, research suggests

Such research could transform the way policymakers look at markets when trying to boost people’s ability to adapt to climate change. Development specialists usually look at markets from the outside and seek to help communities generate livelihoods from them—for example, by helping them organize in cooperatives, etc...
Center for International Forestry Research
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US: Charting Colorado’s vulnerability to climate change

Colorado could see more infectious disease, negative impacts on the elderly and people living in poverty, as well as stresses to water, cattle and crops as byproducts of future climate change, according to a comprehensive new report commissioned by the Colorado Energy Office...
Colorado State University
University of Colorado

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