Hong Kong (China)

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Cover and source: Nature communications
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This study reveals a significant disparity between low-income and high-income regions in terms of global compound drought-heatwave occurrence using observations and climate models.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Cover and source: Global Earthquake Model Foundation
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This seismic risk profile of Hong Kong, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM)
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This study presents and utilizes an integrated semiempirical methodology to estimate a sea–land transition wind profile inside the TCBL that considers the impacts of climate change.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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This study examines the historical impacts of Tropical Cyclones (TCs) in Hong Kong and evaluates the association between economic losses and different TC hazards/parameters (i.e., wind, rainfall, and storm surge).

Frontiers in Built Environment
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This paper asks to what extent learning has occurred with regard to COVID-19. That is, of past experience with pandemics, whether countries learned from the pandemic experience of others, or from their own experience with other types of emergencies.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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This article explores the daily difficulties people with disabilities face in extreme weather, what policies and measures can support them, and how to engage them in climate change mitigation and adaptation in their daily lives.

CarbonCare InnoLab
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This dialogue focuses on people with mental illness who are facing the impacts of extreme weather.

CarbonCare InnoLab
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This study adopted an extended theory of planned behavior to understand how risk perception affected disaster preparedness behavior.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

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