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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.

Cover of World Risk Poll 2021: A resilient world?

Documents and publications

22 September 2022

World risk poll 2021: A resilient world?

This report is the second report about the 2021 World Risk Poll findings and it shows how financial insecurity undermines resilience in the face of climate change-related disasters.

Documents and publications

21 September 2022

Hunger in a heating world: How the climate crisis is fuelling hunger in an already hungry world

This brief focuses on how climate change acts as a threat multiplier, worsening the existing risks and vulnerabilities to hunger for already disadvantaged people, particularly women, agricultural workers, and small-scale farmers.

Update

20 September 2022

Climate change is making rain difficult to predict – we trained an AI to help tropical countries adapt

The forecasting system we developed is essentially an intelligent computer program that can predict whether it will rain, how intense that rain will be and how long it will last at any location with greater than 90% accuracy at least 96 hours in advance.

Conversation Media Group, the

Plants growing out of small piles of coins.

Research briefs

20 September 2022

New type of investment could narrow funding gap for climate adaptation projects

Creating a new type of investment could be the key to protecting infrastructure projects from the impact of climate change according to a new report.

Imperial College London

Man planting mangroves in the water in Indonesia.

Update

16 September 2022

Indonesia's sinking villages look to nature to restore mangroves

A restoration pilot project on Java island is helping villagers protect their communities as climate change spurs worsening floods

Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org

Documents and publications

20 September 2022

Human and economic impacts of disasters: can we trust the global data?

This article conducts a missing data diagnosis of the widely-cited, global disaster database, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) to identify the extent and potential determinants of missing data within EM-DAT.

Family posing for photos amidst flooding and storm surge from Hurricane Sally along Lake Pontchartrain

Research briefs

15 September 2022

Climate change from the ground up: Researchers explore sea level rise impact on building foundations

Researchers have considered how flooding from rising sea levels and storm surges will damage the built environment along the coast, but what about climate change’s less noticeable impacts below the surface?

Colorado State University

Documents and publications

20 September 2022

Disaster risk financing: An overview from Lesotho

This brief unpacks the disaster management landscape in Lesotho looking at disaster risk financing (DRF) policies – both financial and disbursal mechanisms.

Three people carrying bags of onions through flood water.

Research briefs

15 September 2022

Climate change likely increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan

From mid-June until the end of August 2022, large parts of Pakistan experienced record-breaking monsoonal rainfall, leading to large parts of the country being flooded.

World Weather Attribution

Houses were destroyed by the floods in Pakistan 2022.

Update

19 September 2022

How the south Asian monsoon is changing in a warming climate

In August, the world looked on aghast as torrential rains and flash flooding submerged vast areas of Pakistan, affecting 33 million people, killing more than 1,300 and destroying or badly damaging 1.6m homes.

Carbon Brief