1. Home
  2. Knowledge Base | PreventionWeb

Documents and publications

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.

Share your publication.

Uploaded on
Uploaded on
Predicting hydrological drought at global scale: an analysis of the CEMS seasonal forecasts thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study evaluates the performance of forecasts in detecting hydrological drought in the period 1991–2022 using the ECMWF reanalysis ERA5 as a proxy for the observational reference.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Rethinking architectural education post-disaster: an analytical framework for curricular transformation after the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study conducts a comparative analysis of the presence and evolution of disaster and earthquake-focused courses in Turkish public and foundation universities between 2022 and 2025.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature)
A novel approach to quantify cover-collapse sinkhole occurrences using multitemporal lidar thumbnail
Documents and publications

The researchers developed a novel method that detects elevation changes between two successive high-resolution lidar-derived digital elevation models and analyzes these changes to identify cover-collapse sinkholes that occurred over a defined time frame.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Advancing gender-transformative action in human mobility in the context of climate change thumbnail
Documents and publications

This publication explores how climate mobility programmes can move beyond gender-responsive approaches towards more gender-transformative change.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Spatially-explicit economic impacts and risks of climate change in Europe thumbnail
Documents and publications

This paper improves climate-impact assessment for Europe by integrating NUTS-2 level damage functions from the ICES computable general equilibrium model into the spatially explicit CLIMRISK integrated assessment model.

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (Springer)
Evolution of earthquake crisis management and recovery in Italy after 2009: An expert commentary thumbnail
Documents and publications

This paper presents an expert commentary on lessons learned across five dimensions: governance, community engagement, technical assessment tools, professional mobilization, and urban reconstruction.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Spatio-temporal variability of hydrometeorological disasters in Indonesia based on national disaster risk management data thumbnail
Documents and publications

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
Documents and publications

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)