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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09 4월 2024
Games can be a powerful tool to support awareness-raising initiatives and capacity building efforts in disaster risk reduction.
04 3월 2024
Geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale alteration of the Earth’s environment to mitigate climate change and alternate hazard risk. Explore the suggested approaches and related governance and policy issues.
04 3월 2024
The difference between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming may not seem significant. But research shows that failing to limit global warming at 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels will significantly increase disaster risk.
30 5월 2024
While climate change increasingly contributes to soil degradation, effective soil management practices and soil monitoring can help mitigate disaster risk.
03 8월 2021

From landslide to floods, from drought to extreme heat, deforestation drives disaster risk.

04 5월 2023
These resources analyse how these settlements exacerbate risk and management efforts.
04 3월 2024
The Disaster Risk Reduction Country Status Reports provide a snapshot of DRR progress and the status of the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at the national level.
04 3월 2024
As climate change and disasters increasingly wreak havoc, legal systems will likewise begin holding companies, governments and individuals more accountable for their climate emissions and risk negligence.

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