Documents and publications

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

This publication examines how climate-related emergencies can create epistemic stress situations in which uncertainty, competing narratives and political contestation undermine shared understandings of risk, preparedness and institutional responsibility.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, this article offers a socio-environmental analysis of the recurrent floods affecting the urban markets in Lomé.

This document provides guidance for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in Barbados to develop a basic Business Continuity Plan, eventually aligning with the highest international standards. It includes 5 sectoral templates.

It contains advice on how to organize preparedness days, community events to prepare for the risk of forest fires, with a special emphasis on dialogue between residents of these risk areas, public authorities and emergency services.

This study proposes a flexible framework to assess the economic value of weather forecasts, with penalty functions that explicitly account for compounding losses as well as declining user trust in cases of repeated false alarms.

This report examines the experiences of persons with disabilities in Tonga during disasters and emergencies, focusing on emergency preparedness, access to early warning information, evacuation, food security, social protection, & use of cash assistance.

This study explores the extent to which a unique subset of communities in the United States has been able to engage in planning that aligns with these dual imperatives.