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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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3 September 2024

The measurement of rural community resilience to natural disaster in China

Taking Xun County of China’s Henan Province as the study area, the paper aims to evaluate rural community resilience to flood by unveiling the connection between individuals’ cognition, follow-up actions and the community resilience.

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2 September 2024

Disaster and gender: Men’s experiences during and after the earthquake

The aim of this study is to discover how men’s first reflex behaviors during earthquakes and how their coping strategies were shaped after earthquakes in Türkiye.

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2 September 2024

Flood vulnerability assessment in rural and urban informal settlements: case study of Karonga District and Lilongwe City in Malawi

This study carried out flood vulnerability assessment (FVA) using quantitative methods by utilising MCA, ANN (machine learning) and multiple logistical regression.

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2 September 2024

State of the climate in Africa 2023

This report focuses on climate change indicators and impacts in 2023 in Africa – globally the hottest year on record.

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30 August 2024

Maturity model: Adaptative social protection system

This model is organized into 7 dimensions and consists of 50 indicators. It assesses the level of maturity of the system across 5 different levels.

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30 August 2024

Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production

This paper combines predictions of agricultural suitability under different climate change scenarios with timber-production maps to show that 240–320 Mha (20–26%) of current forestry land will become more suitable for agriculture by 2100.

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30 August 2024

Combating air pollution to control desertification and improve food security in Africa

This brief draws attention to the key benefits of addressing air pollution and the benefit to human health, climate and crop production: Precipitation and temperature benefits; Human health in Africa; Land degradation; and Crop yields.

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30 August 2024

Enhanced forest fire evacuation planning using real-time sensor and GPS algorithm

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel algorithm that significantly improves the efficiency and effectiveness of evacuation planning in areas affected by forest fires.