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Disaster risk management

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses.

Latest Disaster risk management additions in the Knowledge Base

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Documents and publications

Community engagement in anticipatory action: Snapshot of experiences and good practices from focus countries

In this framework, FAO has developed a Compendium of experiences and good practices from focus countries, namely Bangladesh, Guatemala, the Niger and Zimbabwe.
National DRR strategy of Montenegro review workshop
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Montenegro’s revision of the National DRR Strategy strengthened through a UNDRR expert-reviewed assessment exercise

As part of its support to Government of Montenegro, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in Europe and Central Asia, ran an expert reviewed assessment of the zero-draft National DRR Strategy of Montenegro 2025-2030.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
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Documents and publications

Assessing sand dams for contributions to local water security and drought resilience in the semi-arid eastern Shashe catchment, Zimbabwe

This study evaluates the impact of sand dams on resilience to climate variability and changes through a participatory case study approach in the Shashe catchment, a semi-arid catchment shared by Botswana and Zimbabwe.
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Is the EU doing enough to prepare for wildfires?

In 2023 alone, wildfires in Europe scorched an area around twice the size of Luxembourg, causing more than €4 billion in damages and releasing the equivalent to nearly a third of all annual emissions from international aviation in the EU.
Deutsche Welle
Family posing for photos amidst flooding and storm surge from Hurricane Sally along Lake Pontchartrain
Research briefs

How to protect coastal infrastructure at risk from sea level rise

A new UCS study released today, Looming Deadlines for Coastal Resilience, shows that risks are growing to vital infrastructure and services that millions of people in coastal communities depend on as global sea levels rise in the coming decades.
Union of Concerned Scientists
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Impact story: Breaking the cycle of negative coping strategies - Lessons from anticipatory action in Niger 2022

In 2022, the pilot of an anticipatory action framework in Niger, demonstrated that acting early – before people experienced a drought’s full impact – enabled them to preserve land, save livestock and avoid negative coping strategies.
A man cooling himself off under a water pipe in Bajgladesh.
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Lessons from Nepal: Coping with hotter and longer heatwaves

Between May 2023 and May 2024, almost everywhere in the world endured a record number of extreme heat days – some had hundreds. Climate change was responsible for adding, on average, 26 days to a place’s extreme heat day tally.
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre
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Climate resilient integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) governance and performance indicators in The Bahamas: a case study

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) developed the Climate Resilient Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Governance and Performance Indicators during 2018 and conducted a pilot study in Belize in 2019.

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