Collections of topic and resource guides

Keep up to date with the latest topic guides on the PreventionWeb knowledge base. These pages bring together a selection of reference material on various disaster risk reduction topics and emerging trends.

04 Mar 2024
People living in slums or in poorly-maintained buildings experience growing health risks due to heat stress - this is called “thermal inequity”.
04 Mar 2024
From early warning systems to evacuation models, artificial intelligence is behind a number of promising innovations for disaster risk reduction.
04 Mar 2024
Ecosystem-based approaches can provide effective solutions for flood risk management.
04 Mar 2024
Businesses around the world have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. These resources explore how the private sector has withstood the pandemic and how its resilience can be further built.
04 Mar 2024
These resources aim to enhance understanding of coherence and inform future policy planning and implementation support, towards more comprehensive and coherent DRR and CCA approaches.
04 May 2023
While climate change increasingly contributes to soil degradation, effective soil management practices and soil monitoring can help mitigate disaster risk.
03 Aug 2021

Drought is a major issue worldwide. This collection provides stories and research regarding different drought solutions.

03 Aug 2021

Physical climate risk has emerged as a prominent threat to the financial sector and the global economy. Understanding investments’ exposure to risk from climate hazards is a critical step toward building resilience.

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