Documents and publications

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 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.

This study examines the effectiveness of film-based interventions in climate education among middle school children in Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh, India.

This study examines household earthquake risk awareness and preparedness in Ghana’s Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, revealing high awareness but low preparedness. Education and prior tremor experience significantly predict readiness.

This research article explores future projections of burned area in Europe by assessing the influence of climate change and human actions.

This report highlights extreme heat as an unequal urban disaster in India and Asia, detailing impacts on informal workers and urban poor, and calls for preventive, equity-focused responses like early warnings and participatory action plans.

This study suggests that wildland-urban interface (WUI) disasters create a distinct post-disaster exposure regime characterised by persistent internal metal mixtures associated with pulmonary impairment months after the event.

This evaluation of IRC's Climate Resilient Education Systems Trial (CREST) pilot in northern Kenya looks at what happens when parametric insurance meets education, and offers practical lessons for others looking to follow.

This research quantitatively evaluates how historical landform modifications and urban expansion have altered rainfall–runoff behaviour and flood exposure.

This paper mobilises the theoretical frameworks of policy transfer and organisational learning to analyse French and international post-exercise and post-seismic after-action reviews.

This study examines how serious games can support disaster risk management education, identifying design features that improve risk communication, learning and preparedness.

This study examines fire governance from fire-prone countries and transdisciplinary practitioner knowledge to propose ten principles for aligning fire policy with social-ecological realities.

This paper examines the associations between predictive preparedness, adaptive governance, institutional fragmentation, and recurrent shock reduction in Somalia through a quantitative, cross-sectional study.

The Toolkit seeks to narrow the gap between climate science and climate action by providing insights, recommendations, and practical tools to support dialogue between scientists, decision-makers, and many diverse communities.

This article reviews barriers to inclusive emergency alerts, highlighting how limited language access, inaccessible channels and mistrust can prevent people from receiving and acting on warnings.

The chapter 4 "National security and stability" examines how journalism can reduce the harms of disinformation, showing how trusted news, fact-checking and media freedom support public resilience, security and stability.

Conclusions from the ILO Meeting of Experts on occupational safety and health in extreme weather events and changing weather patterns, providing guidance on prevention, preparedness, risk assessment, early warning, workplace measures and resilience.

Technical handbook for North Macedonia on risk and hazard assessment and protection and rescue planning, identifying gaps in coordination, methodology and data management; recommending EU-aligned, risk-informed approaches to preparedness and resilience.

A framework providing a universal taxonomy for natural hazard and climate risk and resilience assessments of infrastructure systems, defining Risk Classes, Resilience Classes and guidance for hazard, climate and infrastructure assessments.

This report synthesises social science evidence on climate adaptation and resilience for UK policymakers, highlighting adaptation as an ongoing social process shaped by people’s lived experiences, vulnerabilities, and social context.