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Urban risk & planning

This theme contributes to the understanding of urban risk, which includes urban hazards, exposure and vulnerability. It also covers aspects related to improving awareness, as well as local governance and local capacity to effectively reduce disaster risk.

Latest Urban risk & planning additions in the Knowledge Base

A man overlooks a wildfire visible from San Francisco under a hazy sky turned orange
Research briefs

Fires pose growing worldwide threat to wildland-urban interface

Fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are becoming more common around the globe, a trend that is likely to continue for at least the next two decades, new research finds.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Update

How Phoenix is preparing for its next brutally hot summer

In this Q&A, the city’s director of heat response and mitigation explains what his department is doing to keep people safe.
Yale Climate Connections
Update

Gwadar floods highlight infrastructural flaws in ‘crown jewel’ city

Heavy rainfall in Pakistan’s Gwadar city triggered flooding in poor neighbourhoods, highlighting climate vulnerability and unfulfilled promises of development
The Third Pole
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Documents and publications

Implementation guidelines on water retention areas

This implementation guideline on water retention areas has been developed based on practical experiences of piloting Water Retention Areas in Dong Hoi city, Quang Binh province, Viet Nam
Pedestrians cross a snow-covered street during a blizzard in New York
Update

A blizzard put a hyper-efficient home to the test. It passed.

Passive houses are extremely airtight, with heavily insulated walls and high-performance windows. And in cold climates, they’re designed to maximize the heat from the sun during the winter months.
Yale Climate Connections
MCR2030 Flames of Change Special Report
Documents and publications

Flames of change - special report on disability inclusion in disaster risk reduction and prevention

MCR2030 Flames of Change: Innovating Heat and Wildfire Governance for Inclusive Communities - Special Report on Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction and Prevention
Flames of change
Documents and publications

Flames of change: Innovating heat and wildfire governance for inclusive communities

This report focuses on innovative and inclusive heat and wildfire governance in Europe, aiming to equip policymakers and stakeholders with knowledge, solutions and tools to tackle issues of reducing heat, drought and wildfire risks, leaving no one behind.
A woman farmer harvests wheat in Lahore, Pakistan
Update

If you’ve got a dark roof, you’re spending almost $700 extra a year to keep your house cool

A dark roof means you’ll pay considerably more to keep your house cool in summer. Last year, the average household in New South Wales paid A$1827 in electricity. But those with a lighter-coloured cool roof can pay up to $694 less.
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