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Governance

The institutional structures and processes that drive decision-making and management of DRR programs at regional, national and local level. This theme also includes institutions, legislations, policies and coordination mechanisms such as regional and national platforms.

UN Member States are exploring a legally binding instrument to better protect people before, during, and after disasters.

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Documents and publications

The report uses an exploratory comparative analysis of adaptation governance across selected countries and US states to examine both the recognition of systemic risks.

Stockholm Environment Institute
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Documents and publications

This policy note explores how Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) can support more resilient financing by embedding climate risk diagnostics and climate disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) mechanisms into national financing strategies

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Update

In the century and a half after Tambora, disasters continued to take an enormous toll. Earthquakes, cyclones, and floods claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in multiple events, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century.

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Research briefs

With climate change likely to accelerate extreme weather in Australia, planned or managed retreat – moving people and infrastructure away from these areas – will grow only more important.

Conversation Media Group, the
AI-enabled mental-health interventions for climate-related distress: a call for coordinated EU policy action
Documents and publications

This brief assesses the emerging intersection between climate change, mental health challenges, and artificial intelligence tools across Europe

United Nations University (UNU)
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)
Timor-Leste - Rising risks, resilient futures: Climate and health vulnerability assessment thumbnail
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The Climate and Health Vulnerability Assessment provides an evidence base to guide climate-resilient health investments. It integrates climate modeling, geospatial exposure mapping, and disease burden analysis and economic projections

World Bank, the
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Documents and publications

The Imminent Risk Bulletin (BRI) is a civil society-driven impact-based forecasting tool developed in Mexico to bridge the gap between atmospheric science and citizen survival.

Desarrollo Humano Internacional
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