Sweden

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Identifying regional hotspots of heatwaves, droughts, floods, and their co-occurrences
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This paper presents a framework to aid in the selection of optimal environmental indicators for detecting and mapping extreme events and analyzing trends in heatwaves, meteorological and hydrological droughts, floods, and their compound occurrence.
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This study investigated compound flooding in Halmstad using a very comprehensive dataset of regional climate projections including hydrological, meteorological and oceanographic variables.
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This seismic risk profile of Sweden, 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.
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This brief provides an overview of the different reporting frameworks that are applicable to financial actors and corporates, especially in the EU, to increase understanding of the climate risk disclosure landscape.
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This report explores the potential for CRAs to be used as a tool for assessing adaptation effectiveness, expanding on the implications of designing or updating CRAs and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems for NAP processes.
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This report presents the findings from a comparative study of climate change adaptation policy in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
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In this paper, the researchers present a social vulnerability index for flooding in Sweden. They complement earlier research by assessing social vulnerability using a combined bottom-up and top-down approach with an emphasis on stakeholder involvement.
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This paper examines the emergence of transformative resilience (i.e., dynamic project capabilities to pursue fundamentally new strategies and practices) when facing external disruptions.

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