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This theme adresses how science and technology can contribute to DRR, including approaches and initiatives to bring scientific and technical knowledge into practice and policy, approaches for multidisciplinary engagement, good practice in scientific and technical aspects of DRR, and citizen science.

Latest Science & technology additions in the Knowledge Base

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Documents and publications

Application of advanced very high‑resolution radiometer (AVHRR)‑based vegetation health indices for modelling and predicting malaria in Northern Benin, West Africa

This study aims to determine how vegetation health affects the prevalence of malaria and create seasonal weather forecasts using NOAA/AVHRR environmental satellite data that can be substituted for malaria epidemic forecasts.
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Join the survey: Asia Pacific Science and Technology Conference on DRR (APSTCDRR)

Please join the survey to learn about the role and progress of science and technology in disaster risk reduction in the region.
Integrated Research on Disaster Risk
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Stress releases and seismic gaps: Earthquake sequences strike Eastern Mindanao, Philippines

Mindanao, the second-largest island in the Philippines, is known for its high seismic activity, having experienced numerous moderate to major earthquakes throughout its history.
Temblor
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Reducing flood risk in Thailand

SEI has been working with local partners to improve early warning systems on the Thailand-Myanmar border, and to build resilience to drought and climate change.
Stockholm Environment Institute
Green sprout growing on the coals after a fire showing resilience.
Research briefs

How ‘glowing’ plants could help scientists predict flash drought

In a recent study, a team led by scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California was able to detect signs of flash droughts up to three months before onset. In the future, such advance notice could aid mitigation efforts.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Northern lights
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Geomagnetic storm shows need for space weather forecasts

One of the largest geomagnetic storms in several decades has caused a spectacular light show in skies around the world and highlighted the importance of forecasts of potentially disruptive space weather events
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
A man wades through the flood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Research briefs

An impact-based forecasting system for improved early flood warning

A research team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the German Research Centre for Geosciences has presented a flood forecasting system that provides not only timely water levels but also dynamic high-resolution flood inundation maps
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH
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Documents and publications

Innovative control strategy for flood mitigation through a combination of barrage management on impounded rivers and polders

The research work aims to provide a detailed investigation of various ways of potentially reducing peaks: adapted barrage operation, polder operation, a combination of both, and the simulation-based development of complex control specifications.

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