Documents and publications

This study presents an image-based framework for rapid seismic assessment of unreinforced masonry façades using computer vision, photogrammetry, and semantic segmentation to automate 3D modeling and vulnerability analysis from multi-view RGB images.

This paper examines the formation of the Greater Sydney Heat Taskforce and the co-design of Greater Sydney’s inaugural Heat Smart City Plan as a case through which to interrogate broader challenges in urban climate governance.

This study presents seismic hazard maps for Finland, northern Europe, based on the earthquake catalog FENCAT updated until the end of 2021 and a 2025 three-level hierarchical zoning model.

This study used observed precipitation and QDM-corrected CMIP6 simulations to examine future meteorological drought in Brazil, across 82 hydrographic microregions under SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5.

This scoping review synthesises recurring dilemmas across design, implementation, evaluation, and future direction of anticipatory action (AA)

This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) shows that ambitious climate action can protect people and livelihoods while unlocking new engines of inclusive growth.

This report presents an evidence-based assessment of New Zealand’s atmosphere and climate, highlighting record-high greenhouse gases and temperatures, increased weather extremes, and the urgent need for adaptation and resilience.

This report assesses wildfire-resilient construction costs in Colorado, finding that adopting CWRC Class 1 or IBHS Essential standards increases costs minimally, while higher-tier pathways add moderate premiums focused on exterior components like decks.

This report assesses feasibility of long-range flood outlooks for Australia using co-design with end users and BJP model to quantify and map flood likelihood, finding S2S forecasts enhance preparedness by identifying elevated risk weeks to months ahead.

This paper develops the Coastal Well-Being Loss Measurement Framework to capture nine domains of well-being losses from climatic hazards in Asia-Pacific coastal regions, highlighting the need for inclusive measurement beyond economic damage.

This study aims to explore whether educational status (literate vs. illiterate) is associated with differences in perceptions of well-being in a disaster-affected population from District Srinagar, J&K, India

This publication examines how extreme temperature and rainfall influence the vulnerability and climate change resilience of electricity transmission infrastructure in Kajiado County, Kenya.

This publication reports on an initiative that demonstrates how adaptation can go beyond reducing climate risk to address underlying social inequalities.

This report evaluates five adaptation solutions in the Andes, finding that community-led initiatives with visible impacts are most sustainable, recommending early integration of sustainability, monitoring, local empowerment, and financing strategies.

California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment summarizes climate projections, hazards and vulnerabilities across the state, highlighting increasing risks and adaptation approaches for California’s natural, built and social systems.

This report explores how disaster risk reduction policies that center on "home" can overlook marginalized groups, urging inclusive approaches that recognize diverse living situations to ensure effective support and protection for all communities.

This report describes DRF Analytics, a World Bank–managed initiative that developed adaptable tools for governments to improve disaster risk financing, enabling proactive planning and operational impact across diverse countries and hazards.

This report examines the risks facing the coastal areas of Asia and the Pacific and details how building resilience can protect development and unlock new opportunities.

The Harmful Environmental Agendas and Tactics (HEAT) project examined climate-related misinformation and harmful narratives circulating across France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

This study proposes a novel and efficient method to distill the results coming from a complex model simulation (LISFLOOD) over continental Europe into two key indicators that could be represented and communicated in simple maps.

This study presents a systematic review of 2171 publications spanning 1964–2025, combining a global perspective with a regional focus on the Gulf of Guinea, a critically underrepresented region within the African continent.

This study analyses COVID-19 misinformation in South Africa, highlighting how continuous social listening and community-based communication can inform more adaptive responses to public health misinformation.

This study's objective is o assess the timeliness of outbreak detection, notification and response against the 7-1-7 targets, and to identify the bottlenecks and enablers at each stage.

This paper consolidates 58,319 outbreak event records for 32 diseases and systematically test how 16 hypothesized social and environmental drivers impact outbreak geographies, while accounting for detection and reporting biases.

This paper describes how to use the Integrated system for Natural Capital Accounts to measure and account for ecosystem vulnerability, which constitutes the first component of nature-related risk.

This study examines how storytelling and cultural memory can strengthen risk communication in Alpine communities, helping translate hazard information into protective action, collective resilience and disaster recovery.

This paper analyzes 2019–20 NSW wildfire losses, finding 94% of destroyed houses were within 100 m of mapped flammable vegetation, validating the NSW Bush Fire Prone Land mapping’s 100 m buffer but noting risks extend further in extreme fire weather.

This paper examines how extreme heat in Rio de Janeiro reconfigures daily care for children, showing heat traps disrupt routines, intensify care burdens, erode rest, and disproportionately impact women, urging policy to address social reproduction needs.

The authors introduce a new framework for subseasonal weather forecasts, MARS+Forecast, which extends MARS yield predictions using ECMWF four-week temperature and precipitation forecasts following the MARS publication date.

This study examines early warning messages in Ethiopia and South Africa, finding that direct recipients reported more complete warnings and were more likely to take protective action than those receiving information indirectly.

This study examines community-based climate risk communication in California, showing how locally driven information exchange can strengthen trust, collective action and resilience to multiple hazards.

This study presents the participatory development and piloting processes of a Disaster Preparedness Checklist for health systems, designed to strengthen preparedness for Extreme Weather Events across diverse mountainous European contexts.

This Disaster Management Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive profile of Vanuatu’s national DM structure, policies, plans, and institutions, as well as background information on the country, its natural hazards.

The authors present an innovative, data-driven methodology for mapping susceptibility to flood damage to private assets, leveraging machine learning techniques to overcome some of the limitations and uncertainties associated with traditional approaches.

This study applies an a priori scaffold of eight institutionalisation pathways and a cross-cutting coordination pathway to develop an institutionalisation-deficit framework.

This study analysed the relationship between infrastructure damage and disaster impact. It does so by scraping 79 Post Disaster Needs Assessment reports to collect disaster specific infrastructure damage data for 79 disaster events of this century.

The October 2026 GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning report provides an overview of global crop conditions with a focus on regions vulnerable to food insecurity.

This study aims to develop a risk-based model for assessing fire hazards in highway bridges, intended as a practical decision-support tool for infrastructure managers to identify critical scenarios and prioritise mitigation strategies.

Using the October 2018 extreme sea level event in the Adriatic Sea as a case study, the authors evaluated two different approaches to forecasting compound sea level extremes.

This study identifies recurrent hotspot zones of projected heat and dry-spell persistence across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This report rapidly estimates US$1.66 billion in direct economic damage to physical assets from the August 2026 Rasuwa Flash Flood, identifying infrastructure and hydropower as hardest hit using the GRADE methodology for timely post-disaster assessment.

This report reviews global disaster damage and loss data systems, analyzing practices, challenges, and innovations in sixteen countries, emphasizing system design, governance, and the importance of standardized data for effective disaster risk management.

This report analyzes how MSMEs in EMDEs adapt to climate change using WBES data, finds adaptation is more widespread than assumed yet underreported, shows finance as a key constraint, and presents an MSME Adaptation Finance Typology to inform solutions.

The study looks into the existing gaps in the newsrooms of the selected editions of the Hindi-language newspapers reporting on the issues of climate change.

This study investigates the development and evaluation of immersive geospatial learning materials for flood disaster education, integrating GIS, Augmented Reality (AR), spatial literacy, higher-order thinking skills, and ecopedagogical perspectives.

This report assesses 2023–2026 disaster risk reduction in Africa since the 2015 Sendai Framework, finding climate hazards caused 90% of disasters and $133B losses, noting policy progress but highlighting persistent finance, data, and implementation gaps.

This report provides an overview of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the Caribbean region from 2022 to 2026, analysing the risk context, key trends, progress against DRRP strategic objectives, policy developments, and emerging challenges.

This report reviews disaster risk reduction in the Pacific from 2023–2026, highlighting progress in governance and early warning, but noting gaps in implementation, data, and inclusion

This article assesses how definitions affect detected changes in compound climate extremes in Europe, finding that event frequency, intensity, and trends are sensitive to metric choice and recommends careful selection of event definitions for monitoring.