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This contribution to the GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 is a case study on the Danube region. Drought is becoming one of the major challenges in water management in countries of the Danube region, as it is becoming more frequent and more intense.

This report summarizes a year of drought events through the monitoring and forecasting activity of European (EDO) and Global (GDO) Drought Observatories, as part of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS). The period of interest spans from

This report presents an analysis conducted by the World Bank to assess macro-fiscal impacts of earthquakes and floods in European Union (EU) Member States (MS), analyse the financial instruments in place to manage this risk and identify any associated

This report forms part of the World Bank’s technical assistance project undertaken with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) and financed under the Union Civil Protection

This document summarises outcomes relating to water quality and waterbody conditions from the report ‘Nature-based Solutions: State of the Art in EU-funded Projects’ prepared through the EC’s Valorisation of NBS Projects Initiative. Water legislation is

This article presents the ‘Flood Resilience Rose’ (FRR), a management tool to promote harmonised action towards flood resilience in European regions and beyond. Coping with the growing impacts of flooding in EU countries, a paradigm shift in flood

This paper aims to respond to this need by reviewing the available scientific evidence on the correlation between the environment and people’s mental health and well-being in Europe. It looks, firstly into environmental degradation and pollution as a

This paper aims to offer a review on nature-based solutions (NBS) for urban water management from the literature and some relevant projects running within the COST Action ‘Implementing nature-based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city’. NBS

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