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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

Men fishing on a beach
Update

Rising waters, rising hopes: Shaping resilience in São Tomé and Príncipe through flood risk analysis

The Government of São Tomé and Príncipe is poised to harness insights from the report, address sector-specific impacts, and strategically allocate funds for maintenance and fresh investments.
World Bank, the
This image shows dead trees that were destroyed by a forest fire and are now covered with frost and rain.
Research briefs

Wildfires in wet african forests have doubled in recent decades

Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west africa’s wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have long been overlooked.
American Geophysical Union
Cargo ship crossing the Panama Cannal
Research briefs

Drought behind Panama Canal’s 2023 shipping disruption ‘unlikely’ without El Niño

A lengthy drought that caused widespread disruption to commercial ships passing through the Panama Canal in 2023 would have been “unlikely” without the influence of El Niño, according to a rapid attribution study.
Carbon Brief
An Indian girl wearing a hat to protect her from the sun and the heat with a bottle of water in her hands.
Research briefs

In South Asia, heat stress kills without a heatwave

A new study shows that even on days where there is no official heatwave warning, the threat from heat remains. The authors showed the association of a newly formulated India heat index (IHI) with daily all-cause mortality in the three cities.
Dialogue Earth
People crossing road with umbrella in rain at Matunga in Mumbai Maharashtra India
Research briefs

Shifting winter storms bring more flooding to india

Western disturbances are hanging out over India for longer, adversely affecting water security in the country.
Eos - AGU
AI for DRR
Update

An AI dataset carves new paths to tornado detection

TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings.
MIT Press, the
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Documents and publications

Remote sensing and GIS-based inventory and analysis of the unprecedented 2021 forest fires in Türkiye’s history

This study aimed to document and analyze the 30 large fres (affecting over 100 hectares) of 2021 using remote sensing and GIS techniques.
Update

Midwest tornadoes: What a decaying El Niño has to do with violent storms in the central US

Spring is tornado season in the U.S., but the tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa were quite a bit farther north and east of what would be typical for tornadoes in late April, when tornado activity is more common in Oklahoma and Texas.
Conversation Media Group, the

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