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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.

Ruins after the earthquake in Amatrice
Update

New earthquake assessments strengthen preparedness in Europe

Scientists with the participation of the Swiss Seismological Service have published an updated earthquake hazard map and, for the first time, an earthquake risk map for Europe. Switzerland will follow next year with a higher resolution national risk map.
ETH Zurich
Cover of the ADB publication: drawing of a coastal urban area
Documents and publications

Disaster-resilient infrastructure: unlocking opportunities for Asia and the Pacific

This publication takes a holistic view of practices that affect infrastructure resilience, including risk assessment, investment appraisal, and operation and maintenance across the life cycle of an infrastructure asset.
A scrabble board with the words climate change placed on the board.
Update

Teaching climate issues through gameplay gains a following in Brazil

Using a game with 42 cards, each representing a factor for climate change, participants discover climate causes and consequences. This teaching model way created by a French professor who tested the game with his students, based on the IPCC’s findings.
Mongabay
A severely damaged house and a pile of debris in New Orleans after Hurricane Ida in the United States in 2021.
Update

Better land use and insurance to mitigate disasters

The costs of natural hazards have risen dramatically over the last decades. Besides the escalating climate crisis, this rise in costs is largely explained by urbanisation in exposed, often flood-prone, areas.
VOX EU
Children wearing virtual reality devices
Research briefs

Immersive VR: empowering kids to survive in fire, flood, and war

A new virtual reality experience developed by the University of South Australia is educating children about bushfires and helping them learn how to be safer in such incidents. They participate in problem-solving activities to save themselves and the dog.
University of South Australia
Destroyed houses on a beachfront after a hurricane
Update

V20 Ministerial Dialogue VIII

The COVID-19 pandemic's direct and indirect economic shocks, compounded by systemic climate vulnerability, and abject lack of liquidity or access to official or market funds for climate action are among the shared challenges of the V20 countries.
Climate Vulnerable Forum
This image shows the first page of the GAR2022.
Documents and publications

Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GAR)

The central question for this Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GAR2022) is how governance systems can evolve to better address the systemic risks of the future. Disaster impacts increasingly cascade across geographies and sectors.
Two Rickshaw pullers in India on the hot streets.
Update

This is why India's heatwaves are getting hotter

The heat this summer has already become unbearable in many parts of India. “It’s become impossible to work after 10 o’clock in the morning,” said Sunil Das, a rickshaw puller in the outskirts of Delhi, which saw unprecedented heatwaves a month too early.
Risk Frontiers Holdings Pty Ltd
Three children gathering around a large bucket that is being filled with fresh drinking water.
Update

Floods create health risks: what to look out for and how to avoid them

Recently South Africa has experienced heavy rains which resulted in floods in some parts of the country. In the coastal city of Durban hundreds of people have died and families have been displaced in the aftermath.
Conversation Media Group, the
This image shows the landscape of the Baja California Peninsula.
Research briefs

How to assess a community’s resilience

For ranching communities on the east side of the Baja California Peninsula, groundwater springs are their primary source of freshwater. The economic livelihoods of roughly 4,000 people are closely tied to the springs and to wells.
University of Utah
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