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Explore a comprehensive collection of publications, reports, and documents that focus on disaster risk and resilience.

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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 Systemic climate adaptation framework  thumbnail
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This report explores how, and to what degree, adaptation policies and governance arrangements are beginning to acknowledge and respond to the systemic nature of climate change.

Stockholm Environment Institute
Brazil readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection thumbnail
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This study uses the ASPIRE tool to evaluate the readiness and effectiveness of social protection systems in Brazil, identifying gaps and opportunities to improve anticipatory measures and climate resilience.

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Evaluating the skill of AI and physics-based models for February 2020 North Atlantic storm hazards thumbnail
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In this study, the authors compare the performance of data-driven models to physics-based models in forecasting the February 2020 storm series over the United Kingdom.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
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This policy note explores how Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) can support more resilient financing by embedding climate risk diagnostics and climate disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) mechanisms into national financing strategies

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Early warning! Early action! Early finance? thumbnail
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This special issue is about drawing lessons about recognising the importance of acting early, learning from practice, and strengthening the systems that make early action possible.

All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
Worldwide job losses due to natural hazards thumbnail
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This study quantifies job losses due to floods, earthquakes, wind, storm surges, tsunamis, and heat across 132 countries, using a full-time job equivalent loss estimation approach.

World Bank, the
Storm surge responses in Macau: Early warnings and soft adaptation thumbnail
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In this study, the authors investigated three major typhoons in Macau—Typhoons Hato (2017), Mangkhut (2018), and Ragasa (2025)—to examine changes in residents' evacuation behavior and government responses.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
AI-enabled mental-health interventions for climate-related distress: a call for coordinated EU policy action
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This brief assesses the emerging intersection between climate change, mental health challenges, and artificial intelligence tools across Europe

United Nations University (UNU)