Governance

This study examines conflict in disaster recovery collaborations in Australia, identifying psychological, procedural, and substantive interests as key drivers, and suggests reframing conflict as an opportunity to improve decision-making.

This paper examines the formation of the Greater Sydney Heat Taskforce and the co-design of Greater Sydney’s inaugural Heat Smart City Plan as a case through which to interrogate broader challenges in urban climate governance.

Regional cooperation is critical, but it cannot replace national decisions on where and how risk is managed. The first decision is to look at valleys and corridors as a whole, not at hazards one by one.

Municipalities control levers like land-use planning, permitting and local infrastructure. But the adaptive capacity of municipalities is shaped by fiscal, regulatory and policy frameworks established by federal, provincial or territorial governments.

How do you make decisions about climate adaptation when risks are interconnected, knowledge is incomplete, and there is no obvious way forward?

This Disaster Management Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive profile of Vanuatu’s national DM structure, policies, plans, and institutions, as well as background information on the country, its natural hazards.

This report assesses 2023–2026 disaster risk reduction in Africa since the 2015 Sendai Framework, finding climate hazards caused 90% of disasters and $133B losses, noting policy progress but highlighting persistent finance, data, and implementation gaps.

This report provides an overview of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the Caribbean region from 2022 to 2026, analysing the risk context, key trends, progress against DRRP strategic objectives, policy developments, and emerging challenges.

This declaration urges strengthening of global action on sea level rise, emphasizing four pillars: science, adaptation, livelihoods, and legal issues, and calls for enhanced support and coordinated responses for vulnerable communities.

As climate negotiations move from commitment to implementation, here are five expectations for COP31 in Antalya.

Experts say that without major upgrades to flood defenses, the city will fall deeper into an annual pattern of chaos and paralysis as climate change takes hold.

This paper reviews 35 studies on public interpretations of institutional presence in flood-prone areas, finding that perceptions of risk, trust, and preparedness are shaped by how communities experience flood management and governance visibility.

On September 26th, following nearly 48 hours of continuous heavy rainfall, Bangkok was officially designated a disaster-affected zone following severe meteorological disruptions driven by an active low-pressure cell stalled across central Thailand.

Municipalities can prevent system failures through redundancy – intentional duplication of critical functions that increases reliability – and keep mission-critical communications functioning so public safety professionals can serve the community.

This toolkit provides practical guidance for decision-makers and legal practitioners assessing international protection claims in which climate change and disasters play a role.

The first DRRP Technical Working Group on Scaling Investment in Resilience, held in Brussels on 2 June 2026, brought Programme partners together to explore how resilience investment can be strengthened and scaled across OACPS regions.

This study examines how Canadian emergency management organizations conceptualize and implement accessible risk communication

This report identifies 12 priority capabilities and 12 emerging technologies to strengthen EU disaster and infrastructure resilience towards 2040, using a strategic foresight process combining literature review, horizon scanning and expert consultation.

The Supreme Court opened its 2026-2027 term Monday with a climate case: a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, against Exxon Mobil and Suncor, a Canadian oil company, over the costs of a warming planet.

Solok’s deadly 2026 flash flood exposed long-standing governance failures after a government complex was built in a mapped lahar hazard zone. Experts call for relocation, early warning, watershed restoration and stronger land-use planning.

Indonesia is aligning policies and strengthening intra-government coordination to address the growing health risks of climate change.

This paper analyses London’s Cool Spaces scheme, finding a misalignment between policy intentions and real-world use, with depoliticisation and structural vulnerabilities undermining its effectiveness as a long-term urban heat resilience strategy.

This case study examines the current status of Nepal’s heat early warning system (HEWS), focusing on risk knowledge, monitoring, warning dissemination, and preparedness

The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) experts have identified ten key trends influencing heat action, driving the focus and prioritizing action for the Network and its numerous global, regional and national partners.

El Niño conditions have been observed in the tropical Pacific since June 2026, with forecasts indicating further strengthening through the end of 2026 and into early 2027, potentially making it one of the most intense events in decades.

Member-to-Member support allows National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) to share expertise and institutional experience, addressing immediate technical needs while strengthening services for the long term

FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as survey highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear.

This brief summarizes findings from a comparative study of DRM governance in Switzerland and Nepal, two mountainous states that face structurally similar hazards but operate under starkly different institutional, financial, and developmental conditions.

Authoritarian regimes have a history of keeping information about escalating disasters secret, even when it could harm their own citizens.

Houses can be built on floodplains even if they fail a crucial safety test, according to a high court judgment that will be of “immense interest” to developers across England and Wales.

This paper examines the associations between predictive preparedness, adaptive governance, institutional fragmentation, and recurrent shock reduction in Somalia through a quantitative, cross-sectional study.

Technical handbook for North Macedonia on risk and hazard assessment and protection and rescue planning, identifying gaps in coordination, methodology and data management; recommending EU-aligned, risk-informed approaches to preparedness and resilience.

This report synthesises social science evidence on climate adaptation and resilience for UK policymakers, highlighting adaptation as an ongoing social process shaped by people’s lived experiences, vulnerabilities, and social context.

On 11 June 2026, Lithuania’s Parliament adopted the Climate Change Adaptation Law, establishing a legal framework for developing and implementing adaptation policy, managing climate-related risks, and collecting and providing relevant information.

This research article assesses eight water stressors across Africa using exposure and vulnerability data. It finds WASH-service risks affect the largest populations and calls for stronger transboundary cooperation and improved data systems.

Based on five years of research with flood action groups in England, this paper shows how communities negotiate, contest and resist resilience agendas, developing a typology of emotional, symbolic, discursive, collective and procedural resistance.