Urban risk and planning

This study presents neighborhood-level assessment of potential Natech risks in Istanbul specifically under the scenario of the probable earthquake, analyzing the spatial intersection of structural vulnerability and hazardous industrial/economic activities

Exclusive: 839,000 homes in urban areas face threat of surface-water flooding, with social housing tenants most vulnerable to costs.

This case study examines how, through its Transform Freetown agenda, the city is promoting pro-poor and participatory nature-based solutions to address climate risk and ecological degradation, and can offer practical lessons for other cities.

Ecuador's road network faces ~$140M in annual disaster-related losses, threatening livelihoods and connectivity for millions, yet prevention spending remains far below what's needed to address the growing risk.

A newly published research suggests that bold climate action taken now could potentially spare billions of people from heatwaves likely to be more severe than any the world has yet experienced.

It is an open-source data platform to help cities better understand and respond to urban heat risks. The platform provides city officials with access to globally available, high-resolution data to assess heat exposure at a hyperlocal level

This paper simulates sea–land breeze (SLB) evolution across 18 major coastal megacities under varying sea-surface temperatures (SST).