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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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Disaster scenes as a foundation for emergency response planning

This article introduces the notion of ‘disaster scenes’. In this work, the authors draw on interview data collected from residents impacted by the Jagersfontein tailings disaster in South Africa in September 2022.
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Building age-inclusive disaster risk reduction: Insights among geographically mobile young adults in regional Australia

This paper identifies the need to pair life-stage with disaster risk reduction (DRR) objectives to improve understandings of what counts as ‘inclusion’ and ‘participation’.
Cover and source: World Meteorological Organization
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United in science 2024

A multi-organization high-level compilation of the latest weather, climate, water and related environmental and social sciences for the future.
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GAR Special Report 2024: Forensic insights for future resilience - Learning from past disasters

The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR 2024) looks at present and future trends, showing how forensic analysis can enable more targeted and more effective risk reduction.
Cover and source: Climate Central
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Disenfranchised by climate change

Climate change is increasingly threatening the exercise of the right to vote by making it harder for people to register to vote, to get to the polls, and to have their ballots counted.
Cover and source: United Nations Development Programme
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Getting ahead of the crisis curve: UNDP's approach to multi-hazard early warning and preparedness

This practice note pushes for a proactive shift from reactive crisis response to preventive action, emphasizing the understanding of disaster risk as an interplay of hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and capacity.
Cover and source: Nature Communications
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Inequalities in global residential cooling energy use to 2050

Using statistical models trained on a large multi-country household survey dataset, this study projects AC adoption and energy use to mid-century at fine spatial resolution worldwide.
Cover and source: Swiss Re Institute
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The future of excess mortality after COVID-19

Swiss Re Institute projects excess mortality in the US and UK over the next 10 years under different scenarios, by analysing excess mortality trends globally and disaggregating the underlying factors driving them.

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