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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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Early warning! Early action! Early finance? thumbnail
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This special issue is about drawing lessons about recognising the importance of acting early, learning from practice, and strengthening the systems that make early action possible.

All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
Worldwide job losses due to natural hazards thumbnail
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This study quantifies job losses due to floods, earthquakes, wind, storm surges, tsunamis, and heat across 132 countries, using a full-time job equivalent loss estimation approach.

World Bank, the
Storm surge responses in Macau: Early warnings and soft adaptation thumbnail
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In this study, the authors investigated three major typhoons in Macau—Typhoons Hato (2017), Mangkhut (2018), and Ragasa (2025)—to examine changes in residents' evacuation behavior and government responses.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
AI-enabled mental-health interventions for climate-related distress: a call for coordinated EU policy action
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This brief assesses the emerging intersection between climate change, mental health challenges, and artificial intelligence tools across Europe

United Nations University (UNU)
Impacts of green space decline on urban heat in Huế City, Vietnam thumbnail
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This report analyzes the relationship between the decline of green spaces and rising summer temperatures in Huế City, Vietnam, over the period 2014–2024

Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance
Debris flow disaster information representation and perception based on knowledge graphs and virtual geographic environments thumbnail
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The paper demonstrates that a knowledge-driven VGE system with 3D animations significantly improves public disaster risk perception compared to static or textual formats, validated through eye-tracking experiments and comparative NLP model analysis.

Nature Scientific Reports
Anticipatory action in 2025: a global overview thumbnail
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The report documents the continued expansion of anticipatory action globally in 2025, with record activations, growing institutional embedding, and a first-ever analysis of donor funding flows, while flagging persistent gaps in financing and coordination.

Anticipation Hub
Understanding cross-sectoral wildfire risk governance: Lessons from mix-method analysis of the wildfire risk governance in Italy, Greece, and Land Brandenburg thumbnail
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This paper aims to enhance understanding of wildfire risk (WFR) governance, by identifying patterns and characteristics of cross-sectoral collaborations, and to inform integrated WFR governance strategies across Europe.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)