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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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Adaptation through water: Scaling private sector finance for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia thumbnail
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This report explores how the private sector can accelerate participation and financing for Adaptation through Water (AtW). It highlights the key enablers of bankable AtW solutions globally, including translating resilience into financial value.

World Economic Forum (WEF)
Climate extremes and socioeconomic impacts of extreme rainfall events in April and May 2024 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil thumbnail
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This study evaluates observed changes in temperature and precipitation extremes across the state and examines the May 2024 floods as a case study of evolving risk conditions in southern Brazil.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Toward enhanced coastal flooding forecasting using deterministic and probabilistic models thumbnail
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This study focuses on the application of advanced data‐driven modeling techniques to assess and predict high‐tide flooding (HTF) risks in Oman. The research analyzes the duration, frequency, and economic impacts of HTF.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Cybersecurity in ports: Shifting from risk to resilience thumbnail
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This report examines the growing cybersecurity risks ports face. Drawing on a global survey of 109 port stakeholders it provides a comprehensive overview of cybersecurity policies, practices, and barriers across port ecosystems worldwide

World Bank, the
Strengthening the disaster resilience of SMEs in Sendai thumbnail
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This landscape study assesses how SMEs in Sendai city perceive climate change and disaster risks and how they assess the resilience of their companies and the cities in which they operate.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 thumbnail
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The State of the Climate in the Latin America and Caribbean report provides details of extreme weather and climate change impacts in the entire region, from the Amazon to the Andes, and from coastal waters to snowy peaks

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Global status report for buildings and construction (Buildings-GSR) thumbnail
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The global status report for buildings and construction provides an annual snapshot of the sector's progress globally.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Disaster Storylines and Knowledge Graphs from Global News with Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation thumbnail
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This study aims to produce structured storylines and knowledge graphs for over 3,000 global disaster events by processing news articles through a RAG pipeline combining the power of LLMs for text generation and the semantic extraction of factual knowledge

European Commission Joint Research Centre