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Science-policy-practice interface

This theme addresses how science can contribute to disaster risk reduction, including approaches and initiatives to bring scientific and technical knowledge into practice and policy, approaches for multidisciplinary engagement, good practice in scientific and technical aspects of DRR, and citizen science.

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Toward enhanced coastal flooding forecasting using deterministic and probabilistic models thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study focuses on the application of advanced data‐driven modeling techniques to assess and predict high‐tide flooding (HTF) risks in Oman. The research analyzes the duration, frequency, and economic impacts of HTF.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Towards science-based climate policy in Kerala: Integrating adaptation and mitigation for a climate-resilient future  thumbnail
Documents and publications

This article examines the urgent need for science-based climate policy in Kerala, India, where increasing heat stress, extreme rainfall, floods, landslides and droughts are intensifying climate risks.

International Journal of Disaster Studies and Climate Resilience (IJDSCR)
Update

This mapping tool is made to support disaster readiness by highlighting communities at risk of dangerous climate effects.

City of Birmingham
Press release

Digital technologies have revolutionized how we live, connect, and work, yet our growing reliance on these systems has created risks that often go unnoticed.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Sciences Po
When digital systems fail An expert report on the hidden risks of our digital world thumbnail
Documents and publications

This expert report examines how digital infrastructure, now central to essential services such as healthcare, finance, and emergency response, is creating new forms of systemic risk through increasing interdependence.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Sciences Po
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
AI makes the call. Who answers for it?   thumbnail
Documents and publications

This report examines how AI is used in aerial firefighting, highlighting governance, accountability, and data requirements for safe and ethical deployment.

TracPlus Global Limited
Update

The resource — the first of its kind focused on working grasslands — is designed to track and monitor long-term recovery while supporting farmers, ranchers and land managers as they restore Nebraska’s native grasslands.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Update

If there is a magnitude 8 or 9 megathrust earthquake off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, data from ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) could improve earthquake detection times calculated by the ShakeAlert system.

Seismological Society of America
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