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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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Assessing climate-driven storm impacts on geographically isolated communities and underserved vulnerable populations thumbnail
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This research examined emerging risks posed by increased storm frequency and intensity to high-latitude vulnerable communities previously unaccustomed to extratropical cyclonic events.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Nationwide analysis of cases of emergency transport due to heatstroke in Japan from 2010 to 2024 thumbnail
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This study analyzed national trends in heatstroke-related emergency transports from 2010 to 2024 using Fire and Disaster Management Agency surveillance data in Japan focusing on age distribution, case severity, place of occurrence, and regional variation.

Nature Scientific Reports
Sea-level rise is projected to reshape compound flooding potential in microtidal environments along the Spanish Mediterranean coastline thumbnail
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This study develops a multivariate analytical framework that explicitly resolves non-linear interactions between rainfall and coastal water levels by decomposing compound flooding into event intensity, occurrence probability, and statistical dependence.

Communications Earth & Environment (Nature)
cfe-dm-dmrh-fsm2026.pdf thumbnail
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This Disaster Management Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of FSM’s disaster risk environment, institutional structures, and operational practices.

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DMHA)
 Trust, governance, and climate disasters in the Indo-Pacific  thumbnail
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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.

Toda Peace Institute
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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.

VertigO
Barbados: Strengthening disaster resilience of SMEs through business continuity planning: Guidance and templates thumbnail
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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.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
UNDRR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE)
Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI)
Practical guide to forest fire preparedness thumbnail
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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.

Open University of Catalonia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya