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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.

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Aerial picture of a flooded Texan residential area
Research briefs

New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate

Using New York as a test case, the model predicts flooding at the level experienced during Hurricane Sandy will occur roughly every 30 years by the end of this century.
MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Temple Wat Arun in Bangkok in Thailand.
Update

Three actions governments can take to help pay for climate adaptation

Impacts of climate change including disasters triggered by natural hazards are causing economic and social challenges, with developing countries the hardest hit. There is an urgent need for good fiscal policy to prepare robust adaptation strategies.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Rain clouds at the coastline
Update

Did the BOM get it wrong on the hot, dry summer? No – predicting chaotic systems is probability, not certainty

Weather forecasting is inherently not about certainty but probability. Our atmosphere and oceans do not behave in simple, easily predictable ways. That means we can only predict large weather features.
Conversation Media Group, the
A group of fishermen hauling in their fishing nets.
Research briefs

Study reveals a staggering economic cost of climate change on Bangladesh aquaculture

The economic toll of climate change on Bangladesh's aquaculture has been revealed for the first time in a new study published in Climate Risk Management.
Worldfish center, the
Waste laying on the streets in Nigeria. Yellow tricycles pass the waste along the road.
Update

YouthADAPT challenge winner Ecobarter: Transforming waste into value to combat urban flooding in Nigeria

In the face of climate change, YouthADAPT Challenge Winner Ecobarter helps vulnerable urban communities in Nigeria lower flood risk through sustainable waste management.
Global Center on Adaptation
Homeowners in front of their house after floods.
Research briefs

Over 3.2 million Americans have left high flood risk neighborhoods creating “climate abandonment areas"

Study finds that over the next 30 years, the current Climate Abandonment Areas are expected to decline an additional 16%, some 2.5 million people, due to flood risk.
First Street Foundation
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Documents and publications

Mainstreaming gender equality and social inclusion in nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation

This technical report offers contextual information, tools and recommendations to help plan, design, and implement nature-based solutions (NbS) for adaptation that advance gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) .
A child views flood damage after Hurricane Ida in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Research briefs

Clusters of atmospheric rivers amp up California storm damages

When multiple atmospheric rivers hit California back-to-back, the economic damage from resulting rain and snowfall is three to four times higher than predicted from individual storms, a Stanford study finds.
Stanford News Service
Two human head representing a psychotherapy concept
Update

How climate disasters hurt adolescents’ mental health

Young people traumatized by Hurricane Maria were more likely to report substance use.
Grist Magazine
A pastoralist awaits the sale of his drought affected cattle at an NGO supported destocking market near Isiolo, Eastern Province, Kenya
Update

Kenya: Land use mess at the heart of unfolding desertification

The IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre – ICPAC has carried out drought surveillance over the years and reports that trends are changing; rapidly, extremely
Disaster Risk Reduction Network of African Journalists
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