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Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

Tourism Developments Increase Tsunami Disaster Risk in Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia

Documents and publications

1 September 2021

Tourism developments increase tsunami disaster risk in Pangandaran, West Java, Indonesia

This report discusses how on 17 July 2006, the tourist resort of Pangandaran on Java’s south coast was hit by a tsunami, resulting in 413 fatalities and severe damage to buildings.

Blog

01 Sep 2021

Ida Gabrielsson

Women raise the roof

Organisations like Mahila Housing Trust and Slum Dwellers International work with women to design safe, resilient housing solutions.

House in Belgium partially destroyed by floods in 2021

Updates

1 September 2021

Climate and weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years

Over the past five decades, disasters related to weather, climate or water hazards, have become a regular occurrence, responsible for the deaths of at least 115 people, and causing $202 million in economic loses every day.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Lone tire on a road and the effect of winds on the trees in the background

Updates

30 August 2021

Hurricane Ida: 4 essential reads about New Orleans’ high hurricane risk and what climate change has to do with the storms

Ida was one of the most intense tropical storms on record in the state. Its storm surge was less than Katrina’s, but it quickly flooded streets and homes.

Conversation Media Group, the

Research briefs

31 August 2021

Extreme sea levels to become much more common worldwide as earth warms

A new study predicts that because of rising temperatures, extreme sea-level events along coastlines the world over will become about 100 times more frequent by the end of the century in about half of the 7,283 locations studied.

Deltares

Aerial vision of coastal erosion in the UK

Updates

27 August 2021

How students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to life

True climate literacy must address not only the science of climate change, but also issues of climate (in)justice, including how climate change affects people and places unevenly and amplifies inequalities within and across nations.

Conversation Media Group, the

Documents and publications

30 August 2021

People, not just places: Expanding physical and social vulnerability indices by psychological indicators

This article introduces a range of indicators from psychological risk research.

Updates

26 August 2021

Scientists use new method to recalculate Malawi’s seismic risk

Scientists have developed a new approach for estimating seismic hazard in southern Malawi, a region in the East African Rift zone with minimal earthquake records.

Temblor

Figure 1. Scenes from Abaco Island, Bahamas, after Hurricane Dorian (category 5) in 2019. UN Photo

Updates

14 July 2021

Disasters after disasters - Short recovery intervals and large financial gaps in small island developing states

The internationally agreed Declaration of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action, the so-called S.A.M.O.A Pathway, recognizes that SIDS remain a special case for sustainable development in view of their unique and particular vulnerabilities.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs