National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

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This CSS Risk and Resilience Report provides a comparative analysis of national risk assessments. Specifically, it compares the assessments made by nine European countries and Swiss Re respectively of five types of cross-​border risks.
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This study develops a spatial exposure and social vulnerability assessment of settlements to forest fires in Germany. In recent years many fires have occurred in military training areas that are difficult to access for firefighting.
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In this paper, the authors unpack the contested nature of legitimacy by examining the governance of TCRs in agricultural supply-chains. Stronger interconnections are changing the scope and nature of global environmental governance.
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This article’s commentary puts into perspective the challenges in communicating early warning messaging in the context of the 2021 Western Germany floods.
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This paper studies the presence of moral hazard in Germany using a panel dataset, resulting from a longitudinal survey following a flood in 2013. Property-level flood resilience is an important element of managing current and future flood risk.
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This report attempts to equip urban decision-makers with evidence­based climate information tailored to their specific context, to adequately adapt to and prepare for future climate change impacts.
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This article examines the policies and institutional arrangements for integrating informal volunteers, the methods and tools for their engagement, and the reported benefits and challenges of involving volunteers in disaster management.
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This Peer Learning Note (PLN) documents the practices and discussions shared between cities and partners during the Connective Cities Dialogue Event “The Role of Rain and Storm Water Management in Water Sensitive Urban Planning”, in Cologne, Germany.

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