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Risk identification and assessment

A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature and extent of disaster risk by analysing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of exposure and vulnerability that together could harm people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.

Latest Risk identification and assessment additions in the Knowledge Base

Flooded stores in Jianxi, China
Update

Is it time for China to embrace catastrophe insurance?

As disasters increase in frequency and severity, the need for such insurance is growing, but challenges persist in developing and implementing these products effectively in the Chinese market.
Dialogue Earth
Update

Flash flood risk in Himachal, Uttarakhand as glacial lakes in Himalayas rise: Report

At least 1,048 glacial lakes reported in the Satluj catchment area in 2023, up from 562 in 2019, satellite data shows. If breached, these lakes burst their bounds, habitations and lives will be endangered.
India Today, India Today Group
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Documents and publications

VOLCANBOX: A software platform for volcanic hazard assessment

This study presents VOLCANBOX, a new multiplatform system designed to conduct long-and short-term volcanic hazard assessment and risk analysis in a systematic and rational manner, aimed at reducing volcanic risk by anticipating future eruptions.
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Documents and publications

GAR Special Report 2024: Forensic insights for future resilience - Learning from past disasters

The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR 2024) looks at present and future trends, showing how forensic analysis can enable more targeted and more effective risk reduction.
Tourists traverse the side of a road eroded by floods in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand
Research briefs

Slow-moving landslides a growing, but ignored, threat to mountain communities

Urban growth, climate change, and flood risk at lower elevations can push people to live on steeper, more dangerous terrain.
American Geophysical Union
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Documents and publications

The future of excess mortality after COVID-19

Swiss Re Institute projects excess mortality in the US and UK over the next 10 years under different scenarios, by analysing excess mortality trends globally and disaggregating the underlying factors driving them.
Rocks block a road in Tejeros, Gran Canaria, Spain after heavy rains trigger landslides and rockfalls
Update

Rock boccia on the slope

SLF researchers are investigating how artificial stones move on rough ground in order to improve hazard indication maps.
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
A man overlooks a wildfire visible from San Francisco under a hazy sky turned orange
Research briefs

How researchers measure wildfire smoke exposure doesn’t capture long-term health effects − and hides racial disparities

Researchers know that short-term exposure to wildfire PM₂.₅ increases acute care visits for cardiorespiratory problems such as asthma. However, the long-term effects of repeated exposure to wildfire PM₂.₅ on chronic health conditions are unclear.
Conversation Media Group, the
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