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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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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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Demystifying pre-arranged financing for governments: A stocktake of financial instruments from international financial institutions

This stocktake intends to inform governments, development partners, and wider civil society about the key features of available sovereign-level instruments and their performance, successes and limitations to date based on clearly defined criteria.
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Weather, law, and public-private engagement

This report breaks new ground on the question of weather laws by surveying the existing national weather laws and by asking whether the main obstacle to better public-private engagement is the absence or the presence of a national weather law.
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Measurement and impact analysis of social vulnerability to geological disasters in Guizhou Province, China

This study established a framework for measuring social vulnerability to geological disasters and verified its impact on disaster risk. The index measurement is supported by an existing methodological framework (SoVI).
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Guinea-Bissau country climate and development report

The Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for Guinea-Bissau presents a strategic framework for aligning development goals with climate change objectives amid the country's delicate political and institutional landscape.

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