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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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11 November 2024

Peer review report: Poland 2016

Poland's disaster risk review shows strong coordination and a structured risk framework. Recommendations include improving cross-border collaboration, data sharing, and aligning local and national risk assessments for stronger resilience.

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11 November 2024

The price of a changing climate: extreme weather and economic loss and damage in SIDS

This policy brief presents these initial calculations and recommends that the FRLD develop a budget support mechanism that can help governments of SIDS and other vulnerable countries address the extended impacts of extreme weather on their economies.

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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.

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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.

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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

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11 November 2024

Political Declaration of the 2024 Europe & Central Asia Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

The Political Declaration of the 2024 Europe & Central Asia Regional Platform for DRR is an outcome arising from the Ministerial Roundtable, where Member States reaffirm their political will to implement initiatives that ensure a resilient future for all.