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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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ITALERT: Assessing the quality of LLMs and NMT in translating Italian emergency response text thumbnail
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This paper presents the outcomes of an initial investigation into the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems in translating high-stakes messages.

ACL Anthology
Climate change adaptations for WASH thumbnail
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This guidance note provides a practical framework for integrating climate change adaptation into water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming in humanitarian settings.

Climahealth
Competing in the face of climate risks: Evidence from firms and policy priorities in MENAAP thumbnail
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This report focuses on two concrete and immediate examples of how heat- and trade-related policies in destination markets affect firms and the broader economy of the MENAAP region.

World Bank, the
Investigating the deployment of Takaful for farmers in flood and drought-prone regions in Nigeria thumbnail
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This study has investigated the deployment of takaful for farmers in flood- and drought-prone regions in Nigeria. The study used a quantitative research design with cross-sectional survey data from smallholder farmers in some climate-prone zones

The International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
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