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This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events in 2018.

This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events.

The ninth edition of the report "Explaining Extreme Events in 2019 from a Climate Perspective"

This paper analyses what different urban actors (citizens; politicians; urban planners and designers; and urban climate experts) who shape the urban environment and thus its climate, know about urban climate adaptation measures. Thereby, this study is

This guidance document presents the local government's response to COVID-19 in Korea. The measures taken are categorised under the following themes:

  • Innovative public health administration (pp. 2-4);
  • Support and management of self-quarantine (pp. 5-7)

While South Korea experienced sharp growth in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases early in the global pandemic, it has since rapidly reduced rates of infection and now maintains low numbers of daily new cases. The high volume of testing and a low

This is a lessons-learned guide prepared by the Government of Korea on handling the challenges linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The guides analyses the below main points:

  1. In response to economic challenges, the Korean government focus

Disaster and safety management budgets should be managed efficiently through suitability verification. However, no method has been proposed for efficiency verification in the existing research due to limited budget data and absence of a verification

The Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Centre (APDRC) hosted by the Republic of Korea National Red Cross (KNRC) embarked on a virtual reality journey in 2018 because of the need for more realistic and participatory training in Asia Pacific, the most

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