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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsLow and middle-income countries are bearing an increasing financial burden from the impacts of disasters as both the frequency and intensity of disaster events are rising. Despite the increasing availability of disaster data, many countries lack the capability to process, refine, and act upon this data. To address this challenge, the disaster risk finan…
This Commission staff working document is the second edition of an overview of the natural and man-made disaster risks that the EU may face, prepared under EU legislation on civil protection. The aim of the overview is to capture the trends in the ever-evolving disaster risk landscape, discuss the major drivers shaping it, take a closer look at 12 selec…
This paper examines the case of Sierra Leone, a low-income country with an emerging social protection system that has been used to respond to natural disasters and health crisis. The country's responses use the institutional arrangements and delivery systems of the Et Fet Po to differing degrees, highlighting how nascent social protection systems can su…
This study provides information to be used to raise the ambition of Georgia's NDCs and to consider adaptation targets for the Black Sea coast of Georgia. The study also highlights how supporting a Blue Economy could accelerate the implementation of adaptation measures required to reduce climate risks and contribute towards the region's socioeconomic dev…
In this letter to the editor, the authors discuss the lessons provided to authories by the compound effect of COVID-19 and flooding in Henan Province, China. The devastating COVID-19 pandemic is a major threat to human health, despite the implementation of control measures. Coincidently, a massive once-in-1000 year flood occurred in Henan Province, Chin…
This policy brief addresses how climate change is threatening the overall progress made in reducing the global burden of diseases and injuries. Climate change has a serious impact on human lives and health. It threatens the basic elements we all need for good health and will undermine decades of progress in global health. In this paper, several pathways…
The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) Natural Disasters Data Book 2019 provides statistical perspectives in figures and tables for 2019 as well as for the period 1990-2019 based on data obtained by EM-DAT.
According to EM-DAT, 440 natural disasters occurred in 2019 worldwide, killing 24,112 people and affecting approx. 100 million people. The esti…
The report focuses on the South Japan flooding of July 2020, and tries to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected both the preparedness and the recovery. As highlighted in the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risk Report, the world has been undergoing increasingly complex risk landscapes over the recent years, and it is not enough to have po…