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This theme contributes to the understanding of urban risk, which includes urban hazards, exposure and vulnerability. It also covers aspects related to improving awareness, as well as local governance and local capacity to effectively reduce disaster risk.

Latest Urban risk & planning additions in the Knowledge Base

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Ancient Rome had ways to counter the urban heat island effect – how history’s lessons apply to cities today

City architects in ancient Rome called for narrowing streets to lessen late afternoon temperatures. Narrow streets were found to cool the air by limiting the area exposed to direct sunlight.
Conversation Media Group, the
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UC Irvine team says urban street networks, building density shape severity of floods

Researchers’ new analytical model can assess neighborhood-level hazards globally
University of California, Irvine
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Four cities planting trees to save lives

Trees are a powerful solution to the climate crisis. They reduce the risk of landslides and floods, improve air quality, and even protect mental health.
Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
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Documents and publications

Performance assessment of indicators of a multi-hazards early warning system in an urban mountain region

This article evaluates these early warning systems indicators by assessing their forecasting capability, effectiveness, and efficiency in increasing warning times, the alarm duration compared to the event duration, and their forecasting ability.
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Documents and publications

Quantifying future climate extreme indices: implications for sustainable urban development in West Africa, with a focus on the greater Accra region

The study employed the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 models in simulating climate extreme indices under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway scenarios (SSPs) over West Africa between 1979 and 2059 as exemplified by the Greater Accra region.
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Documents and publications

Extreme heat adaptation and mitigation programming: Lessons from the affected population

This issue highlights a range of topics, including best practices for urban planning to reduce heat islands, community-based resilience strategies, and the role of local governance in heat action plans.
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Research briefs

Urban growth is leading to more intense droughts for most of the world’s cities – and Sydney is a case study for areas at risk

The growth of cities worldwide is contributing to more intense drought conditions in many cities, including Sydney, a new Chinese study has found.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications

Garden design can reduce wildfire risk and drive more sustainable co-existence with wildfire

The aim of the paper is to address the increasing frequency and severity of destructive wildfire disasters by exploring the concept of defensible space around homes, particularly in wildland and rural-urban interfaces.
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