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The report analyzes the characteristics of global extreme weather disasters from 2000 to 2021.

This project studied evacuation difficulty for residents in the Daoli District of Harbin during storm water-logging. Frequent water-logging disasters in cities are serious threats to urban residents.

This publication examines risks from flooding and earthquakes in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region. It assesses the protection gap and identifies ways of strengthening financing.

This strategy lays out the guiding ideology, basic principles, and main objectives of China’s climate change adaptation via an in-depth assessment of climate change risks and impacts, the effectiveness of adaptation work, and challenges and opportunities.

In the context of climate change, coastal cities are at increased risk of extreme precipitation and sea level rise, and their interaction will aggravate coastal floods.

China’s Achievements, New Goals and Measures for NDCs serves as an update to the Enhanced Actions on Climate Change: China’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions submitted in 2015 and also forms China’s Adaptation Communication.

This study quantifies the effects of stormwater management measures in runoff reduction for different levels of rainfall and conducts a one-dimensional visual analysis of urban waterlogging risks.

This study developed an integrated modeling framework that extends previous studies to the spatial domain to assess the future flood risks and the cost and benefit of three adaptation measures for four types of buildings in Shanghai.