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These resources offer insights, best practices, and research aimed at mitigating the impact of disasters. Whether you're seeking the latest research, policy recommendations, or case studies, this library supports knowledge sharing and informed decision-making in building safer, more resilient communities.

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State of the Climate in Asia 2025 thumbnail
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The WMO State of the Climate in Asia 2025 reports that ocean heat, which has increased since the 1990s, reached a new record.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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This report explores how governments can finance heat resilience through risk-informed investments, innovative financing mechanisms, and resilient infrastructure to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies from rising extreme heat risks.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Centre for Disaster Protection
National Disaster Management Authority (India)
Pathways to locally led adaptation: Lessons for effective climate resilience finance thumbnail
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The report distils what the Alliance has learned through working directly within planning and budgeting processes in 10 countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance
Predicting hydrological drought at global scale: an analysis of the CEMS seasonal forecasts thumbnail
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This study evaluates the performance of forecasts in detecting hydrological drought in the period 1991–2022 using the ECMWF reanalysis ERA5 as a proxy for the observational reference.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Rethinking architectural education post-disaster: an analytical framework for curricular transformation after the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes thumbnail
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This study conducts a comparative analysis of the presence and evolution of disaster and earthquake-focused courses in Turkish public and foundation universities between 2022 and 2025.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature)
A novel approach to quantify cover-collapse sinkhole occurrences using multitemporal lidar thumbnail
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The researchers developed a novel method that detects elevation changes between two successive high-resolution lidar-derived digital elevation models and analyzes these changes to identify cover-collapse sinkholes that occurred over a defined time frame.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Advancing gender-transformative action in human mobility in the context of climate change thumbnail
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This publication explores how climate mobility programmes can move beyond gender-responsive approaches towards more gender-transformative change.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Spatially-explicit economic impacts and risks of climate change in Europe thumbnail
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This paper improves climate-impact assessment for Europe by integrating NUTS-2 level damage functions from the ICES computable general equilibrium model into the spatially explicit CLIMRISK integrated assessment model.

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (Springer)