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Explore a comprehensive collection of publications, reports, and documents that focus on disaster risk and resilience.

These resources offer insights, best practices, and research aimed at mitigating the impact of disasters. Whether you're seeking the latest research, policy recommendations, or case studies, this library supports knowledge sharing and informed decision-making in building safer, more resilient communities.

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Delivering effective early warning and early action: Integrating participatory processes for long-term equality, diversity and inclusion

This policy brief is aimed at mandated organisations such as national governments, international donors, and multilateral agencies. It advocates for advancing participatory, decentralised, and democratic approaches in early warning systems (EWS).
Cover and source: Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
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Sri Lanka disaster management reference handbook

This updated Sri Lanka disaster management reference handbook provides an overview of the country’s disaster management practices and details the systems in place to help communities cope with emergencies
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Adapting coastal cities and territories to sea level rise in West Africa: Challenges and leading practices

This report provides an overview of current challenges and highlights, through case studies and boxes, some examples of leading practices and possible responses in West Africa coastal cities.
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Guidelines for simulation exercises

WOAH has developed these guidelines for simulation exercises with the goal of strengthening the capacity of Veterinary Services in WOAH Members for preparedness against all hazards that affect animal health and welfare, and veterinary public health.
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Towards integrated flood management: Vulnerability and flood risk in the Ayeyarwady Delta of Myanmar

In this study, the authors apply the Global Delta Risk Index in the Ayeyarwady Delta of Myanmar in which they combine 55 indicators of social- and ecosystem vulnerability with 100-year, 500-year, and 1,000-year scenarios of flood hazards.
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What you don't know can't help you: Public awareness about social and green infrastructure

This study employs a cross-sectional survey design to investigate factors influencing knowledge of social and green infrastructure among individuals in the United States.
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Road fragment edges enhance wildfire incidence and intensity, while suppressing global burned area

This study is built around conceptualising and developing the process-based links between the edge effects of land fragmentation on observed land surface and human ignition variables that can conceivably affect fire probability and behaviour.
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Faith-based organisations and disaster management in informal urban Accra

Drawing on a qualitative approach and situated in a disaster-vulnerable community of Dome, Greater Accra, this paper unpacks the activities of Faith-based Organisations (FBOs) in filling the voids in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

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