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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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18 September 2024

Detection and attribution of climate change impacts on human health

This report provides an overview of the field as it stands today, including reflections on the history of its evolution out of climate science; an overview of the aims and approaches of the current body of literature.

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18 September 2024

Comprehensive assessment of flood risk and vulnerability for essential facilities: Iowa case study

In this study, nine different types of essential facilities in the state of Iowa were analyzed on a county level in terms of flood depth, functionality and restoration time after flooding, and damage sustained during flooding.

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18 September 2024

VOLCANBOX: A software platform for volcanic hazard assessment

This study presents VOLCANBOX, a new multiplatform system designed to conduct long-and short-term volcanic hazard assessment and risk analysis in a systematic and rational manner, aimed at reducing volcanic risk by anticipating future eruptions.

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18 September 2024

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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18 September 2024

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’.

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18 September 2024

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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18 September 2024

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.

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18 September 2024

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.