Documents and publications

This report examines the conditions, decisions, actions, and systems that influenced Southern California Fires and community conflagration outcomes before and during the fires.

This second report focuses on the everyday risks that touch the most lives, examining changes in reported levels of harm from sources such as road traffic to drinking water. The Poll is based on more than 143,000 interviews in 140 countries & territories

This toolkit provides practical guidance for decision-makers and legal practitioners assessing international protection claims in which climate change and disasters play a role.

Indonesia’s 2025–2030 national action plan sets out a framework for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the health sector, guiding government bodies and stakeholders on implementation and funding.

This study develops a multidimensional climate vulnerability index for Odisha’s 30 districts, finding marked regional disparities driven by environmental and physical factors, and recommends targeted, domain-specific adaptation strategies for DRR.

The first DRRP Technical Working Group on Scaling Investment in Resilience, held in Brussels on 2 June 2026, brought Programme partners together to explore how resilience investment can be strengthened and scaled across OACPS regions.

This Disaster Management Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Tonga’s disaster risk environment, institutional structures, and operational mechanisms.

This briefing paper shows how disaster resilience can be integrated into Smart City development across theory, policy and practice. The findings indicate that technology and digital infrastructure alone are not sufficient to create resilient Smart Cities.

This publication highlights the progress made in five countries in advancing the EW4All initiative through targeted investments and technical assistance funded by the Government of Sweden via the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

This study examines how Canadian emergency management organizations conceptualize and implement accessible risk communication

This study uses immersive VR simulations and machine learning to identify manual guidance by station staff as the most effective factor for reliable flood evacuation in suburban railway stations, emphasizing staff deployment and clear emergency broadcasts

This study explores how Japanese farmers adapt to climate change-related crises through crisis management. Findings indicate that Japanese farmers have a relatively moderate to high perception of climate change, but some farmers exhibit adaptive behavior.

Team studied tsunami-like sea disturbances in Greece from antiquity to now, finding nine of ten cases were meteorological in origin and only one seismic, stressing the importance of multiple discriminants to distinguish meteotsunamis from seismic tsunamis

This guide summarizes global evidence on extreme heat and health, showing rising heat-related illness, death and economic losses, and highlighting Heat-Health Action Plans, surveillance, governance and equitable adaptation as key responses.

This report identifies 12 priority capabilities and 12 emerging technologies to strengthen EU disaster and infrastructure resilience towards 2040, using a strategic foresight process combining literature review, horizon scanning and expert consultation.

This review explores data-driven methods in climate multi-hazard and risk assessment, focusing on four themes: data processing and collection; hazard identification, prediction and analysis; risk assessment; and future risk scenarios under climate change.

This report examines Nigeria’s “double cost crunch” from climate impacts and the low-carbon transition, highlighting pressures on growth, public finances and investment and recommending adaptation, resilient infrastructure and energy diversification.

Report examines Indonesia’s “double cost crunch” from climate impacts and the low-carbon transition, finding that delayed action can increase damages and financing pressures and recommending early investment, adaptation and international climate finance.

This report examines India’s “double cost crunch” from climate damages and the low-carbon transition, finding that delayed mitigation intensifies economic pressures and that immediate climate action brings greater long-term benefits.

The study integrates asset inventories, satellite imagery and impact modelling to estimate flood losses and damages within days, once a sufficiently detailed flood footprint is available.

This policy brief presents recommendations on extreme heat early warning. Heat is an escalating global threat, contributing to nearly half a million deaths annually and impacting multiple sectors including health, agriculture, and livelihoods.

This report analyzes the 2026 flash flood in Nepal, finding a massive rock-ice avalanche—not rainfall—triggered the disaster. It advocates multi-hazard monitoring, early warning systems, and transboundary risk management to build Himalayan resilience.

This study develops a meso-level parametric flood and drought insurance model for smallholder farmers and SMEs in Belize and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, leveraging blockchain to automate payouts, enhance resilience, and strengthen rural livelihoods.

This executive summary synthesizes global evidence on extreme heat and health, showing rising heat-related mortality, illness and productivity losses, and highlighting surveillance, HHWSs, HHAPs, adaptation and mitigation measures.

This study provides guidance for public health authorities and event organizers to prevent and manage heat-related illness at mass gatherings, offering risk assessment tools and practical measures for safer, climate-resilient events in diverse contexts.

This study evaluates the sensitivity of wildfire hazard to climate change in Molleturo Parish, Azuay Province, using high-resolution (20 m) spatial simulations with the FlamMap modeling framework.

This policy brief explores the role of micro-disaster risk finance in helping close protection gaps and strengthen resilience across the region. Disaster-related damage in Emerging Asia reached USD 685 billion between 2010 and 2024.

This study examines climate risk perception and its influence on adaptive behaviour among coastal communities through a systematic literature review using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework.

This report shows how adaptive systems that respond to climate shocks can increase resilience for women and marginalised communities.

As health risks sensitive to changes in the climate rise in the Greater Mekong Subregion, this brief outlines the impact of compounding risks and shows how building capacity and reinforcing early warning protocols can strengthen regional resilience.

This report assesses 45 nature-based infrastructure projects in 29 countries, finding a median benefit-cost ratio of 3.21 and 38% IRR, and recommends reforms to planning, finance, and policy to elevate NBI alongside traditional infrastructure options.

Study analyzes global flood research from 1980–2025, finding surging output since 2000 but persistent mismatches between research attention and actual flood risk, especially in Africa and South America, driven by socioeconomic factors, not risk exposure.

This paper draws on about two decades of firm-level records from Tunisia’s formal business registry (Répertoire National des Entreprises), linking firm locations to satellite-based precipitation measures at the delegation level.

This study compares household vulnerability, community perception, and coping strategies for cyclone-induced disasters in two coastal settlements in Ganjam, Odisha

This study examines how cities across the Arizona urban corridor incorporate heat resilience into their networks of plans, using an integrated assessment approach. The researchers applied three complementary plan evaluation methods.

This study aims to systematically reveal the nexus among urban heat resilience, urban-scale expansion, and land-cover transformation in 70 rapidly urbanizing Chinese cities

This paper analyses London’s Cool Spaces scheme, finding a misalignment between policy intentions and real-world use, with depoliticisation and structural vulnerabilities undermining its effectiveness as a long-term urban heat resilience strategy.

This case study examines the current status of Nepal’s heat early warning system (HEWS), focusing on risk knowledge, monitoring, warning dissemination, and preparedness

This case study examines the current status of Bangladesh’s heat early warning system, outlining how heat risk is understood, monitored, and communicated, and how warnings prompt actions across institutions.

This study shows global evidence on climate change’s impact on the health and wellbeing of indigenous children, highlighting five interconnected outcomes, calling for culturally grounded, geographically diverse, and child-centred climate-health research.

This research describes experiences of individuals working in, residing in, and providing disaster response to long-term care (LTC) settings in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria.

This paper examines the impact of Hurricane Harvey on home health (HH) care in Texas, linking 2017-2018 patient-level Medicare HH claims with county-level data on disaster declarations from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

This editorial presents a special issue which addresses the complexity of disasters and their effects on older adults in different countries.

This report responds directly to a call from financiers for better and more nuanced evidence on the outcomes of locally led adaptation.

This brief summarizes findings from a comparative study of DRM governance in Switzerland and Nepal, two mountainous states that face structurally similar hazards but operate under starkly different institutional, financial, and developmental conditions.