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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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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.
Cover and source: World Bank
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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).
Cover and source: World Bank
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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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Central African Republic: Country climate and development report

The Central African Republic (CAR) Climate Change and Development Report (CCDR) provides an in-depth analysis of the country’s vulnerability to climate change and its implications for sustainable development.
Cover and source: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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Long-term communication of aftershock forecasts: The Canterbury earthquake sequence in New Zealand

This study explores long-term aftershock forecast information and communication needs in the aftermath of the 2016 Christchurch earthquake. It also aims to gather feedback on aftershock scenarios, an alternative form for communicating the forecast.

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