Documents and publications

This paper identifies the tasks for which the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) swarms is deemed beneficial for a wildfire emergency response system, and regulations that hinder their acceptance, adoption, and integration.

This publication reports on activities of European Union missions empowering regions and local authorities to enhance climate resilience and risk management practices and safeguard livelihoods amid increasingly extreme weather events.

In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature potentially harmful and put people in harm’s way.

This guidance offers generic principles and entry points for UNDP programme design and implementation, while outlining key considerations, supported by case studies, tools and references.

In the aftermath of the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on 28 March 2025, misleading AI-generated content spread widely, highlighting the dangerous intersection of technology and humanitarian crises.

The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases, as part of its monitoring of countries at risk of famine and to provide early warnings of impending crop shortfalls.

This Vietnam Disaster Management Reference Handbook is intended to provide an overview of Vietnam’s disaster management system and practices for personnel within the U.S. armed forces who may engage in disaster response operations.

The study initially proposes an indicator-based approach for assessing location-specific variations in landslide resilience to minimize landslide risk by building a resilient society in Rangamati Hill District (RHD), Bangladesh.