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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.

Portrait of Aiping Chen
Interview
Aiping Chen

Aiping Chen: “We need to emphasize how exposed women are to the impacts of climate change"

“If women's involvement also becomes an essential step in screening those project proposals, and their leadership will be encouraged, that would be a success,” Aiping says.
Flood in Nepal
Feature

Early warning systems saving lives during Nepal’s monsoon

The growing use of mass media and early warning systems through data collected from meteorological and hydrological stations and the rainfall-runoff model is proving effective in saving lives in Nepal.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Assessment of physical vulnerability of buildings and socio-economic vulnerability of residents to rainfall induced cut slope failures
Documents and publications

Assessment of physical vulnerability of buildings and socio-economic vulnerability of residents to rainfall induced cut slope failures: A case study in central highlands, Sri Lanka

This report discusses how In landslide-prone areas, the vulnerability of housing structures is assessed so that adaptation methods can be introduced to reduce risk.
Tractor in a field
Update

Climate change means Australia may have to abandon much of its farming

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) predicts a likely scenario that overall farm profit will fall by 13% by 2050.
Conversation Media Group, the
Water being pumped out of the Whitehall Street subway station due to storm surge flooding from Hurricane Sandy in New York City (2012)
Update

A subway flood expert explains what needs to be done to stop underground station deluges

When the subway was initially built in New York starting in 1904, no one was thinking of sea level rise or torrential rains.
Conversation Media Group, the
Cover page
Documents and publications

The role of existing social protection programs in alleviating poverty caused by large-scale negative shocks

This brief provides evidence by examining the performance of cash transfer programs in Indonesia and the Philippines following two recent disasters
Fire hydrant sprays water in a New York City street
Update

Heat is killing us - and the economy too

Heat itself is too often overlooked as a destructive force in its own right. One reason is that heat often destroys quietly.
Atlantic Council
Floods in Hoi An, Vietnam in 2017
Update

Storm-proof housing for the urban poor – lessons from Da Nang, Vietnam

For low-income families in coastal areas of Vietnam, storm and typhoon damage is a constant threat to life and well-being.
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition - International
Wildfires in Algeria
Update

Algeria suffers from devastating wildfires, but faces big challenges in addressing them

Dozens of forest fires have raged through forest areas across northern Algeria. So far at least 90 people have reportedly died as a consequence.
Conversation Media Group, the
Asia's Climate Emergency
Documents and publications

Asia’s climate emergency

Fiscal policy can help address climate change in Asia, the region hit hardest by global warming.
Bookshelves in a library.
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