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Zdravko Maksimović, City of Kraljevo

Observe to predict, predict to prevent: Kraljevo's approach to DRR

Following two disasters, the city of Kraljevo, Serbia established a new disaster risk reduction framework, calling for the local community to take a more active role.
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Karin Klasa, MSB, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency

Making Cities Resilient in Sweden

To build their resilience, Arvika and other cities in Sweden have joined the Making Cities Resilient initiative, run by the UN Office for Disaster

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Basil Mahfouz, SynSapien

How implementing Sendai could have saved Beirut

The 2020 Beirut port explosion is a reminder that designing disaster risk reduction strategies is not enough. The policies must also be implemented.

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Richard Boothroyd, University of Glasgow

Monitoring moving rivers: Analysing threats to critical bridges in the Philippines

To address river migration in relation to transport infrastructure, satellite images can be used to monitor river channel change in the vicinity of

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Anat Grimberg, Head of Planning Division, National Emergency Management Authority

Israeli COVID-19 vaccination program: Safe. Simple. Flexible.

Israel is becoming the global leader in successful COVID-19 vaccination. What aspects of the country's program can be transferable and scalable to

The amphibious housing unit during floods. CORE Bangladesh research team.
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M. Shah Alam Khan, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Bangladesh: Living with the floods on floating houses

In this interview, Professor M. Shah Alam Khan explains how amphibious housing can help populations in Bangladesh cope with reoccurring floods.
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Janak Pathak, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Harmonizing disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation for local resilience in Nepal

In Nepal, Local Disaster and Climate Resilience plans are paving the way for integrated action disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation.

This

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Rahel Steinbach, DRR & Resilience Programme Specialist
, UN Women

Launch of progress tracker on inclusive DRR policies: more progress is needed on inclusive and gender-responsive disaster risk reduction policies and strategies

UN Women and DRR Dynamics have developed a policy progress tracker, which shows that in 2020 only 26 countries have explicit disaster risk reduction

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Lina Liakou, Resilient Cities Network

Resilience as a vehicle for urban transformation in Europe

The current pandemic serves as a stark reminder of how urban challenges are deeply connected; therefore our solutions must be so as well. Cities are

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Monique Bennett, Good Governance Africa SADC

Desert locust outbreak highlights gaps in risk governance

The desert locust outbreak requires several levels of response from national and regional governance structures.

We know that environmental disasters

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