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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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Towards an operational European Drought Impacts Database (EDID) thumbnail
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This article gives insight into the implementation of European Drought Impact Database (EDID), its structure and attributes, and provides an analysis of the content.

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, the
El Niño impacts on food security: Lessons from past El Niño events for 2026/27 preparedness (June 2026) thumbnail
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The study examines the main impacts of the 2015/16 and 2023/24 El Niño events on drought, flooding, displacement, and the agriculture sector.

World Food Programme (WFP)
Adapting infrastructure to changing climatic conditions: the case of transport infrastructure in Mongolia thumbnail
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This policy paper analyses the mainstreaming of climate resilience into Mongolia's transport infrastructure before the bulk of the country's planned network is built.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Rapid disaster damage assessment using deep adversarial sliced Wasserstein domain adaptation thumbnail
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This study investigates the use of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) techniques for rapid damage assessment during disasters.

Springer
Loss and damage beyond economics: exploring health as a non-economic loss in national climate planning thumbnail
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The report offers a snapshot of how health-related Loss and Damage is reflected in national climate policy documents, examining the extent to which physical health, mental health, and health systems are integrated into climate planning and action.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Preventing future zoonotic pandemics: strengthening national legal frameworks & international cooperation thumbnail
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This report examines how national legal frameworks and international cooperation can help prevent future zoonotic pandemics, with a particular focus on the role of wildlife trade in the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Multi-hazard exposure disproportionately affects vulnerable populations globally thumbnail
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This study provides a global analysis of multi-hazard exposure and disparities in socio-economic vulnerabilities using data on hazard co-occurrence and population distribution for the period 2004–2017.

Communications Earth & Environment (Nature)
Community-led drainage construction to reduce prolonged flooding thumbnail
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This solutions brief shares practical and replicable local knowledge of this approach in Nij Goddimari village in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh, a community which faces chronic flooding and waterlogging due to its proximity to the Saniajan River.

Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance