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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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Counting the cost of heat: the case for urgent solutions for cities thumbnail
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This report reveals that extreme heat is emerging as one of the most underestimated threats to economic development worldwide, hammering city economies, overwhelming health systems, and falling hardest on women working on the frontlines of a hotter world.

HERA (Climate Resilience for All)
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This handbook provides guidance for designing and implementing technical assistance on macroeconomic modelling to support climate resilient economic development in partner countries.

Adaptation Community
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This study seeks to understand how UHI risks are perceived, prioritised, and addressed in Sri Lankan cities, identify barriers and enablers influencing local government action.

University of Huddersfield
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This study aims to synthesise existing knowledge on urban heat island mechanisms, patterns, and impacts; review strategies for reducing UHI and heat risks; and develop a conceptual framework to support urban heat resilience and sustainable city planning.

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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This study investigates how disaster and emergency management professionals prioritize the factors that shape disaster risk and resilience across different contexts.

Delft University of Technology
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Policy paper proposing an animal-inclusive approach to the Sendai Framework by integrating animal welfare, biodiversity and sentient beings into disaster risk reduction.

Vulnerability Insight and Action (VIA)
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The study aims to assess Delhi's increasing heat stress and looks into propose roadmap that combines year-round city-wide heat resilience measures with targeted interventions for vulnerable groups.

Centre for Science and Environment
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This scoping note examines how intensifying heat-waves threaten every link of India’s power-sector value chain and outlines a roadmap for climate-ready electricity systems.

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)