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Displaying 12 of about 12 resultsThis rapid assessment outlines key actions needed for recovery from the 2020 floods in Sudan. The report documents the immense scale and damage of the floods and highlights the importance of preparedness to reduce the impacts and damages of future floods. In 2020, after months of unusually heavy rains across Central and North-Eastern Africa, Sudan was a…
This paper discusses how resilience is widely seen as an important attribute of coastal systems and, as a concept, is increasingly prominent in policy documents. However, there are conflicting ideas on what constitutes resilience and its operationalisation as an overarching principle of coastal management remains limited. In this paper, it shows how res…
This publication reviews a project aimed at supporting the immediate life-saving basic needs of 3,667 Cambodian households through the provision of unconditional cash transfers, improved access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene practices, as well as reestablishing a decent, clean, and safe learning environment for boys and girls…
Social inequalities lead to flood resilience inequalities across social groups, a topic that requires improved documentation and understanding. The objective of this paper is to attend to these differences by investigating self‐stated flood recovery across genders in Vietnam as a conceptual replication of earlier results from Germany.
This study, there…
This paper provides a physics-based evaluation of how coral restoration can reduce coastal flooding for various types of reefs. Wave-driven flooding reduction is greatest for broader, shallower restorations on the upper fore reef and between the middle of the reef flat and the shoreline than for deeper locations on the fore reef or at the reef crest. Th…
This document provides an assessment of the floods and landslides damage caused by the 2021 Cyclone Seroja and needs of the affected people in Timor-Leste to inform the country's long term post-floods recovery efforts across multiple sectors. Recovery needs across social, productive, infrastructure and crosscutting sectors are assessed based on damage a…
This project estimates the impact of four disasters in recent Australian history on income of individuals residing in disaster-hit areas. By defining individuals’ ability to return to their pre-disaster income levels as economic resilience, the paper focuses on the following case studies: The 2009 Victorian Black Saturday bushfires, the 2009 T…
This report from the UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee provides an overview of the risks of flooding on homes and businesses in the UK. Over 5.2 million homes and businesses in England are currently at risk from flooding, according to the Environment Agency, and more will become threatened in the future. The Climate Change Committee has…
Floodplain buyouts are a flood mitigation strategy of acquiring frequently flooded properties and returning them to open space. A primary source of federal funding for post-flood buyouts is the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Unfortunately, these funds can take months or years to mak…
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…
This report considers what role insurance played in restoring local economic activity and reducing the longterm impacts of these natural disasters. It examines three severe natural disaster events in Australia between 2019 and 2020: the Townsville floods, Black Summer bushfires, and East Coast hailstorms. Events of this kind are becoming increasingly co…
This study evaluates the build-back-better considerations in post-disaster recovery, following the devastation of Chipinge and Chimanimani communities by Cyclone Idai-induced floods in 2019. Conducted in 2020, the study assesses the impact of Cyclone Idai-induced floods on communities in Chipinge and Chimanimani Districts of Zimbabwe; evaluates the buil…