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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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Spatio-temporal variability of hydrometeorological disasters in Indonesia based on national disaster risk management data thumbnail
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This study examines the relationship between hydrometeorological disasters and climate variability modes using disaster event ratios from the Indonesian National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) for 2008–2023 in Indonesia.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Heat–health action plans: guidance, second edition thumbnail
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This guidance on heat–health action plans (HHAPs) supports countries in developing, strengthening and implementing such plans at national, regional and local levels.

World Health Organization (WHO)
Amidst the heat and breeze: a documentation of traditional cooling practices in Sudanese houses thumbnail
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This illustrated booklet documents the enduring wisdom of traditional Sudanese homes and the indigenous, low-cost techniques communities have long used to stay cool during extreme heat.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre
Principles and processes for prioritising and influencing urban resilience investment.pdf thumbnail
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This guide outlines a set of principles and processes for resilience investment in Australia aimed at fostering effective, sustainable, and long-term resilience-building initiatives.

Natural Hazards Research Australia
A Century of chemical weapons: use, prohibition, and elimination thumbnail
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This monograph provides a comprehensive examination of the history, regulation, and elimination of chemical weapons over the past century.

AIEP Editore
White paper on live wildlife trade and markets thumbnail
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The paper examines the complex links between live wildlife trade, zoonotic disease risks, biodiversity loss, animal welfare, and global health security through a comprehensive One Health perspective.

International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade
Knowing what the weather will do: A guide for practitioners on impact-based early warning thumbnail
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This guidebook provides a novel approach and methodology for designing and implementing Impact-based early warning (IbEW) systems. it guides the co-development and integration of risk knowledge on hazards, exposure, vulnerabilities

United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
Uncertainty, pastoral knowledge and early warning: a review of drought management in the drylands, with insights from northern Kenya thumbnail
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This study assesses global inequalities in exposure to compound precipitation extremes (CPEs), defined as the concurrent occurrence of short-duration, high-intensity 1-day precipitation and prolonged 5-day precipitation.

npj Natural Hazards (Nature)