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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.

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The cooling of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean and its implications for climate change

Climate models have consistently predicted that as greenhouse gas emissions rise, ocean waters will warm, and this has proven to be mostly correct. However, the opposite has been happening in an area of the east Pacific Ocean.
Risk Frontiers Holdings Pty Ltd
Women walking on a beach carrying baskets on their heads
Research briefs

Research suggests that part of India will become a climate hotspot

The fertile and densely populated plain around the Indus and Ganges rivers is likely to become a climate change hotspot according to a new study published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.
Universität Augsburg (UA)
A man overlooks a wildfire visible from San Francisco under a hazy sky turned orange
Research briefs

Fires pose growing worldwide threat to wildland-urban interface

Fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are becoming more common around the globe, a trend that is likely to continue for at least the next two decades, new research finds.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Documents and publications

Probabilistic modeling of dam failure scenarios: a case study of Kanlikoy Dam in Cyprus

In this study, the authors aimed to assess potential flood hazards in Cyprus stemming from three distinct dam failure scenarios: piping, 100-year rainfall, and probable maximum precipitation (PMP).
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Documents and publications

Sequencing for success: The essentials of locally led adaptation

Sequencing for Success brief provides key messages for how donors, policymakers, and adaptation practitioners can better design and support effective and equitable adaptation.
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Documents and publications

A framework for modelling the probability of flooding under levee breaching

In this paper, researchers combine existing fragility curves and empirical breaching equations with a framework for automating levee breaching in catchments with limited geotechnical information.
Research briefs

New radar analysis method can improve winter river safety

University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have developed a way to use radar to detect open water zones and other changes in Alaska’s frozen rivers in the early winter.
University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Transforming agricultural insurance in the Philippines to help farmers cope with disasters: Three essential reform areas

Agricultural insurance can be an essential tool for Filipino farmers to manage climate shocks effectively. It can safeguard their livelihoods, protect them from falling into poverty traps, and enhance their productivity and innovation.
World Bank, the

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