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Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

Two women in Africa wearing a mask in a local market

Update

12 May 2023

Action on climate resilience is business critical

As climate impacts bite, greater resilience becomes critical. Tom Mitchell sets out four areas where businesses can protect themselves and others, while seizing opportunities to market resilience-enhancing products.

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Yellow building collapsed after an earthquake.

Research briefs

12 May 2023

Next steps in seismic hazard reduction after the Turkey earthquakes

After Christchurch earthquakes, the engineering community was alarmed at the performance failures of modern buildings. One design initiative to come from the destruction and loss in New Zealand was to build structures with functional recovery in mind.

Temblor

Documents and publications

12 May 2023

Global Report on Internal Displacement (2023): Internal displacement and food security

IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s most trusted source of data and analysis on the risk, scale and impacts of internal displacement.

Idanre Hill , a beautiful natural landscape in Nigeria. The people of Idanre lived on these massive rocks for over a hundred years.

Update

10 May 2023

ECOWAS takes strides in improving and strengthening response and management of disasters in the region

Heads of civil protection directorates and disaster management agencies from ECOWAS member countries have gathered in Niamey for the 15th consultative meeting of the Regional Committee for Disaster management in West Africa (GECEAO).

Economic Community of West African States

A group of fishermen hauling in their fishing nets.

Update

16 March 2023

On the frontlines of climate change: Financing the largest community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu

‘We women depend on fishing along the coastline to provide fish for our families but most of our catch now are much smaller than the ones we caught here the past years,’ says Jennie Jenery, a villager from Efate Island in Vanuatu.

Green Climate Fund

Documents and publications

11 May 2023

Strengthening resilience against shocks, stressors and recurring crises in low- and middle-income countries: an evidence gap map

This brief is based on an evidence gap map of interventions that aim to strengthen resilience against shocks, stressors, and recurring crises in low-and middle-income countries. This map was commissioned by USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security.

Houses with wildfire smoke in the background

Research briefs

10 May 2023

Smoke from the Black Summer fires could have made the triple La Niña more likely

New research by American scientists suggests the Black Summer fires were massive enough to influence the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle. It’s one of the most important drivers of unusual weather over the entire globe.

Conversation Media Group, the

African women carrying water back to their villages.

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10 May 2023

Cultural significance of health should be incorporated into modern disaster risk reduction strategies

At the University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, researchers took an interest in exploring and investigating further health and livelihoods impacts associated with climate change in ASALs.

University of Eastern Finland

Satellite view of the wildfires in a field

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9 May 2023

Earth’s climate is changing. IBM’s new geospatial foundation model could help track and adapt to a new landscape

Built from IBM’s collaboration with NASA, the watsonx.ai model is designed to convert satellite data into high-resolution maps of floods, fires, and other landscape changes to reveal our planet’s past and hint at its future.

IBM Corporation

Update

9 May 2023

Ground-breaking data platform plays key role in tackling acute food insecurity in food crises

Detailed, comprehensive and timely data is essential to address the impact of shocks such as droughts, earthquakes or conflict on agricultural production and livelihoods in parts of the world affected by food crises.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters