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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.

Three men working in a textile factory in India. They are applying print on fabric.

Update

9 June 2022

Indian workers suffer as heat waves turn factories into 'furnaces'

Workers at India's manufacturing hubs are calling for cooling equipment and wider change as rising summer temperatures impact their health and power cuts disrupt their livelihoods

Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org

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Documents and publications

9 June 2022

Integrating nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk management: A practitioner’s guide

This guide explores the benefits of using nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resource-efficient infrastructure.

Update

8 June 2022

Malawi: African Development Bank extends grants of $9.25 million for rollout of Climate Disaster Risk Financing

The ADB Board has approved two grants of $9.25 million to implement the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme in Malawi. The move will boost the country’s resilience against climate-related shocks and food insecurity.

African Development Bank

Historic building in the French Quarter in New Orleans, USA.

Update

9 June 2022

How New Orleans neighborhoods are using nature to reduce flooding

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the neighborhood of Hoffman Triangle was overwhelmed by 6 feet of water. But it doesn’t take a hurricane to make this wedge in the center of the city flood.

Grist Magazine

Update

3 June 2022

Three lessons from three years of the global risk financing facility

The World Bank and donors met to discuss a future global disaster risk finance agenda in 2017. As disasters and climate shocks increasingly threaten lives, assets, and livelihoods the question became: What more can be done to boost financial preparedness?

Global Risk Financing Facility

Men repairing their homes after Cyclone Sidr, Bangladesh

Update

7 June 2022

800% increase in UN appeal needs for extreme weather-related emergencies over last 20 years – new Oxfam research

The amount of money needed for UN humanitarian appeals involving extreme weather events like floods or drought is now eight times higher than 20 years ago — and donors are failing to keep up, reveals a new Oxfam brief today.

Oxfam International Secretariat

Update

7 June 2022

Shifting seasons: Using indigenous knowledge and western science to help address climate change impacts

Traditional Owners in Australia are the creators of millennia worth of traditional ecological knowledge – an understanding of how to live amid changing environmental conditions.

Conversation Media Group, the

Border Roads Organization clear the road to Leh affected by landslide on August 29, 2012 in Manali, India. Landslides are regular phenomenon of this high altitude region.

Research briefs

7 June 2022

A community-led landslide prediction system in India

In a first-of-its-kind disaster prevention initiative, a meteorology-based landslide prediction system was developed as a crowdsourced science effort.

Eos - AGU

Burnt out house, only the outer walls are still standing

Update

3 June 2022

The current state of play on financing loss and damage

Besides mitigation and adaptation, addressing loss and damage is the crucial third pillar of climate action: helping people after they have experienced climate-related loss and damage.

World Resources Institute

Research briefs

3 June 2022

Great timing, supercomputer upgrade lead to successful forecast of volcanic eruption

In the fall of 2017, geology professor Patricia Gregg and her team had just set up a new volcanic forecasting modeling program on the Blue Waters and iForge supercomputers.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign