Collections: Topic guides

Keep up to date with the latest topic guides on the PreventionWeb knowledge base. These pages bring together a selection of reference material on various disaster risk reduction topics and emerging trends.

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04 Mar 2024

Building resilient grids

Grid resilience can help ensure that power disruptions are minimal and do not affect critical services.

Topic guide

04 Mar 2024

Building resilient ports and harbours

Adapting ports to a changing climate and investing in disaster resilience is critical to reduce the economic impacts from catastrophic events.

Topic guide

04 Mar 2024

Building resilient roads

Access disruptions on roads following a disaster can cause significant social and economic losses. Risk informed infrastructure investment is critical to ensure the construction and maintenance of resilient road networks.

Topic guide

04 Mar 2024

Business case for DRR

These resources explore the economic, social and environmental dividends of investing in disaster risk reduction.

Topic guide

04 Mar 2024

Citizen participation for disaster risk reduction (science & technology)

Examples of innovative DRR initiatives supported by citizen science and crowd-sourcing.

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29 May 2024

Climate services for disaster risk reduction

These resources explore how climate services can contribute to effective risk management systems and resilience building initiatives.

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06 Aug 2024

Collecting disaster loss data

We cannot reduce risk effectively if we cannot measure disaster losses. Have a look at stocktaking, challenges and best practices in this collection on disaster loss data. Traditionally

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04 Mar 2024

COVID-19 and natural hazards

During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, natural hazards increased disaster risk in countries already managing the outbreak. These resources explore the interlinkages between these hazards and the COVID-19 pandemic.