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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.

People in a destroyed house following Hurricane Matthew in Roche a Bateux, Haiti in October 2016

Update

2 March 2023

Haiti builds national resilience towards extreme weather events

As one of the three countries most affected by extreme weather events worldwide, Haiti has been working hard to formulate an ambitious, inclusive and systematic approach to climate adaptation.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Documents and publications

6 March 2023

Water safety plan manual: Step-by-step risk management for drinking-water suppliers

This Water safety plan manual provides practical guidance to support development and implementation of water safety planning in accordance with the principles presented in the WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality.

Houses with wildfire smoke in the background

Research briefs

2 March 2023

Wildfires in 2021 emitted a record-breaking amount of carbon dioxide

UC Irvine-led study found northern-latitude forest fires to be the highest source

University of California, Irvine

Documents and publications

3 March 2023

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030: Reflections and insights from the global engineering community

This paper presents the results of a consultation with over 200 engineering practitioners and experts, to feed into the formal Midterm Review process of the Sendai Framework.

A storm ocean wave crashes over the road and floods coastal houses.

Research briefs

2 March 2023

Reassessment of Storegga event: second major landslide recognized

GEOMAR study suggests more frequent large submarine landslides on the Norwegian shelf

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Research briefs

1 March 2023

Rate of temperature–precipitation scaling in rainfall events

Future extreme rain will be embedded in shorter, more convective dominant rainfall events in the northeastern region of North America, leading to larger rate in future temperature-precipitation scaling.

American Geophysical Union

Car submerged by flood waters in a street in India

Update

27 February 2023

Community cooperation across Nepal-India border saves lives during floods

NGOs say an early warning system helps around 64,000 people who live along the Ratu River every year, thanks to volunteers alerting those downstream of high river levels

The Third Pole

Update

27 February 2023

Floating farms are transforming life on India’s waterways

As the climate crisis unfolds it is pushing people into desperate, but inventive directions. In the Sundarban region of southern India and Bangladesh, farms are being floated on platforms, supporting sustainability and resilience to extreme weather.

Climate Home News

Farmer preparing his field for seedlings in South Africa

Update

28 February 2023

Promoting Indigenous knowledge to strengthen community led adaptation

Smallholder farmers in the Umzingwane district in Zimbabwe are taking up locally-led initiatives and indigenous knowledge to adapt to unpredictable climate patterns.

International Centre for Climate Change and Development

Broken green umbrella lying on the street with hail.

Update

27 February 2023

How hail hazards are changing around the Mediterranean

A new method for studying hailstorms from space offers more consistent and more complete views of how and where hail forms, and how climate change might influence hail’s impacts in the future.

Eos - AGU