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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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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)
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The research seeks to address the question, what are the potential global targets forevaluating proactive drought preparedness and resilience that can be standardized and monitored to improve coordination among countries and international organizations.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Automatic sentiment analysis of citizen comments: the case of the Albania earthquake
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This study investigates how crowdsourced user comments collected through the LastQuake app can be used to improve situational awareness following an earthquake.

GeoHazards (MDPI)
Mental health integration guide: a tool for insurers thumbnail
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Developed by the UNEP, the Mental Health Integration Guide: A Tool for Insurers provides a practical framework to help insurers understand and address the links between climate change, mental health and social resilience.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)