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This publication contains 13 testimonies of those who were in the front lines responding to the 2017 earthquakes in Mexico from the health, education, culture, first response, international cooperation and reconstruction sectors.

This article reports the findings of a survey of 411 residents with caring responsibilities for children aged 12 and under in communities near the active volcanoes of Sakurajima in Japan, Merapi in Indonesia, and Popocatépetl in Mexico. Informed by the

This study explores how the two leading approaches in water resources management and ecosystem thinking for climate change adaptation – i.e. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) – can be merged to achieve

This publication collects the efforts made by universities in the response and preparedness toward the COCVID-19 pandemic as well as other hazards such as earthquakes, fires, and anthropogenic hazards. This compilation includes 26 case studies from 13

This report introduces practical tools, approaches and case studies on linking Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). The content of this publication was developed by the IASC Reference Group for Mental Health

This report documents the assignment, commissioned by the Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management, to assist countries in Latin American and the Caribbean in organizing their infrastructure in terms of disaster risks. The assignment - part of the

This research focuses on the perception of the people in charge of operationalizing the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework and the New Urban Agenda

In this study, a numerical hydrodynamic model was applied to Zihuatanejo Bay on the Mexican Coast of the Pacific Ocean to study the heights and arrival times of tsunamis produced by hypothetical 8.0 Mw earthquake with an epicenter at 16.9718°N–101.973°W

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