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Risk identification and assessment

A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature and extent of disaster risk by analysing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of exposure and vulnerability that together could harm people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.

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El Niño forecasts 18 months using new UH-developed tool

Researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) created a new tool that will allow forecasting of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) by up to 18 months.
University of Hawai'i
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USGS scientists deploy to New Mexico fire to enhance water monitoring

U.S. Geological Survey scientists will deploy to the active South Fork and Salt fires today to increase water data transmission from streamgages within the burn area.
United States Geological Survey
Research briefs

Iceland’s volcano eruptions may last decades, researchers find

Iceland’s ongoing volcanic eruptions may continue on and off for years to decades, threatening the country’s most densely populated region and vital infrastructure, researchers predict from local earthquake and geochemical data.
University of Oregon
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Shaping a resilient future: GEM's innovations at WCEE2024

The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation is gearing up for the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024) in Milan, Italy, from July 1st to 5th, 2024.
Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM)
An electric fan cools down a resident inside her house
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Extreme heat waves aren’t ‘just summer’: How climate change is heating up the weather, and what we can do about it

While this summer is likely be one of the hottest on record, it is important to realize that it may also be one of the coldest summers of the future.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications

Understanding flood risk in urban environments: spatial analysis of building vulnerability and hazard areas in the Lisbon metropolitan area

This paper aims to contribute to the global efforts to enhance flood resilience in urban areas by introducing a physical vulnerability index for buildings in flood-prone urban areas and exploring its connection with flood hazard.
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Documents and publications

Mauritius disaster management and climate change handbook

As part of an effort to ensure that stakeholders have the best information, this Handbook provides the reader with a baseline understanding of Mauritius’ national entities involved in disaster management and climate change action.
Aerial view of the residential area of the suburb of Nizhnevartovsk during the flood of 2015 in Russia
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Geological archives predict our climate future

By analysing 56-million-year-old sediments, a UNIGE team has measured the increase in soil erosion caused by global warming, synonymous with major flooding.
University of Geneva

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