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Urban risk and 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

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Global status report for buildings and construction (Buildings-GSR) thumbnail
Documents and publications

The global status report for buildings and construction provides an annual snapshot of the sector's progress globally.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Climate, the environment and site management – overview thumbnail
Documents and publications

Site Management translates climate and environmental commitments into concrete, site-level action across multiple contexts.

Global Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster
Assessing pluvial flooding risk in urban areas with high spatial heterogeneity using a fused physically-based and data-driven framework thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study developed an integrated urban flood risk assessment framework for cities with significant spatial heterogeneity, combining differentiated hydrological-hydrodynamic modeling with complementary grid-based.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Update

Four choices will define whether cities’ housing policies offer solutions or exacerbate problems.

World Resources Institute
A hybrid approach to earthquake-preconditioned debris flow: regional susceptibility and event-based hazard assessments thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study presents the an integrated debris flow susceptibility & numerical modelling framework applied under post-seismic conditions in Türkiye. The Tut region of Adıyaman in southeastern Türkiye experienced destructive debris flow events in 2023

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Thirty years of earthquake retrofit in the city of Los Angeles: Trends, drivers, and implications for seismic resilience thumbnail
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This study examines three decades of seismic retrofit activity in the City of Los Angeles to assess how the implementation has varied across space, time, and socially vulnerable communities.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Case study
Location: Uganda
This case study examines how Kampala, Uganda's capital, is integrating city-centric approaches into national policy to manage climate-related human mobility
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Reinterpreting disasters and urban resilience in the Anthropocene: Disaster management or transforming with disasters? thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study aims to reinterpret disasters from the perspective of Anthropocene and discuss its implications for disaster policies.

Sage Publications
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