Documents and publications

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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Policies and plans

1 April 2026

Zimbabwe: National climate policy

The National Climate Policy formulation was based on and guided by robust science, stakeholder consultations, review of the current plans, strategies and policies, legal and regulatory analysis.

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11 November 2024

A guide to designing and using policy analysis for enhanced climate resilience

This short guide was created for Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance country teams and aims to support them to design work that analyses global, national, regional or local policies and use insights to inform influencing work.

Documents and publications

11 November 2024

Tsunamis: Alert, prepare and understand—20 years of action

Understanding tsunami hazards can save lives. UNESCO works to prepare the 700 million people living in at-risk coastal areas across the globe by organizing tsunami preparedness exercises, response plans and drills across all the ocean basins

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11 November 2024

Climate-resilient fiscal management: Experience from Southeast Asia

This report considers how finance and planning ministries can respond strategically to climate risk, highlighting best practices from Southeast Asia and identifying crosscutting priorities.

Documents and publications

11 November 2024

Simulation of landslide dam failure due to overtopping considering wide-graded soil erosion

This research proposes a relative exposure formula under three-dimensional conditions to account for the concealment and exposure effects between large and small particles in wide-graded soil, with regards to assessing landslide dam failures.

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11 November 2024

Historical tsunami effects from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

This poster summarizes the 2004 tsunami observations and images made available to the International Tsunami Information Centre (ITIC) and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and co-located World Data Service (WDS) for Geophysics

Documents and publications

11 November 2024

Yearbook of global climate action 2024

The Yearbook showcases climate action by non-Party stakeholders, such as finance and nature protection, and highlights their key role in raising ambition.

Documents and publications

11 November 2024

State of the climate 2024: Update for COP29

The WMO State of the Climate 2024 Update once again issues a Red Alert at the sheer pace of climate change in a single generation, turbo-charged by ever-increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.