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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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Standing the heat: an analysis of heatwave financing in India’s Union budget thumbnail
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This report highlights a significant gap in dedicated public financing for heat resilience In India.

Greenpeace International
Deep learning completes US flood hazard maps revealing millions exposed to previously unrecognized risk thumbnail
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This paper presents a deep-learning framework that learns from existing records to produce a spatially complete 30-m flood hazard map for the contiguous US, filling unmapped regions and updating legacy extents.

Nature Communications (Nature)
Seismic capacity survey and earthquake risk assessment of self-built buildings in rural areas of Shanghai Municipality thumbnail
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This study conducted field research and theoretical calculations to gain an overall understanding of the seismic performance of these buildings.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Rapid assessment of flood-induced agricultural losses to support infrastructure and policy decisions thumbnail
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This study develops an integrated, stochastic modeling framework to quantify three distinct agricultural flood-damage aspects—prevented planting, unharvested acreage, and yield loss—in Chariton County, Missouri.

Journal of Flood Risk Management (Wiley)
Children’s climate risk report 2026 thumbnail
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This report reveals how children’s exposure to multiple, overlapping climate hazards, inherent physical vulnerabilities, and the gaps in the social services they rely on, undermines their rights and increases their risk of harm.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
State of the Climate in Asia 2025 thumbnail
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The WMO State of the Climate in Asia 2025 reports that ocean heat, which has increased since the 1990s, reached a new record.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Financing Heat Resilience report cover
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This report explores how governments can finance heat resilience through risk-informed investments, innovative financing mechanisms, and resilient infrastructure to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies from rising extreme heat risks.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Centre for Disaster Protection
National Disaster Management Authority (India)
Pathways to locally led adaptation: Lessons for effective climate resilience finance thumbnail
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The report distils what the Alliance has learned through working directly within planning and budgeting processes in 10 countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance