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Displaying 60 of about 451 resultsThis report assesses the state of knowledge on climate change impacts on mobility in the Middle East (including Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen) and provides a foundation for further research to fill evidence gaps for policy and programming. It draws together curre…
This research aims to develop a framework for identifying, ranking, and prioritizing the risks for Indian harbours. Also, this study ranks the 12 major Indian ports based on the identified risk factors. The study follows an extensive literature review, prioritization by Fuzzy TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution), an…
In this study researchers demonstrate a comprehensive floodplain inundation hindcast of the 2021 European Summer Flood illustrating these possibilities for better disaster preparedness, offering a 17-hour lead time for informed and advisable actions. Despite considerable advances in flood forecasting during recent decades, state-of-the-art, operational…
This note explains how the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR) has successfully supported Bangladesh in integrating climate resilience to the rural power system, with a specific focus on power system planning and post-disaster recovery.Through collaboration with local and international partners, knowledge exchange, and innovative solutio…
In this study, the authors extend their previous work by producing robust evidence in support of the role of active faults and tectonic topography in shaping the flood hazards in the Kashmir basin and its implication for other similar basins in the world. The Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager-Thermal Infrared Sensor (OLI-TIRS) and Landsat 7 Enhanced The…
The World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) supported construction of new rural infrastructure in Vietnam and enhanced safety and connectivity for the country’s most vulnerable communities. Despite Vietnam’s significant economic growth in the last few decades, rural regions—especially in the northern part of the co…
This paper looks at the role social capital has played in the survival of an understudied and vulnerable group in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic - the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Typhoon Yolanda) living in resettlement sites north of Tacloban City. Using a qualitative approach to analysis 357 household surveys of resettle…
This article looks at how frequent drought situations have resulted into increased incidence of burning forests and their ultimate effects on land ecosystems around the world. Drought and wildfire interactions are well known but the way they combine to affect vegetation growth is not properly known. Using satellite information gathered between the years…
This policy brief synthesizes the key findings of the Climate Vulnerability Assessment on the Filipino Deaf community conducted under Project SIGND, highlighting challenges faced by the Deaf in the context of climate change including those relating to accessibility, education, health, and livelihood. The brief presents policy recommendations to address…
This study aimed to develop an approach for quantifying wildfire likelihood that is both computationally efficient and able to consider contagious and directionally specific fire behaviour properties across multiple spatial ‘neighbourhood’ scales. To effectively reduce future wildfire risk, several management strategies must be evaluated under plausible…
This paper presents a comprehensive Twitter data analysis (2011-2023) to gain insights into public perceptions of heatwaves and their health-related concerns. In terms of health outcomes, the paper categorizes and analyzes a wide range of concerns during heat waves, from heat-related illnesses to mental health issues. These findings provide valuable ins…
This report describes how the sea is expected to rise along the Norwegian coast towards the middle and end of this century, and further towards the year 2300. Glaciers and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass and the oceans are warming, causing global sea-level rise. This represents a growing risk that coastal countries, including Norw…
This policy brief summarises key learning from the Ward Development Planning model, an innovative approach to local participatory development planning being implemented in Kenya’s drylands. There is great potential to take a bottom-up approach to development planning in the drylands that includes the knowledge, input and support of dryland communities.…
In response to the growing recognition that measuring inputs, such as climate finance, is not enough to capture the impacts of investments, the World Bank Group developed the Resilience Rating System (RRS). Developed over a two-year,multi-sectoral consultative process through close collaboration with internal and external actors, the RRS methodology aim…
The objective of this research paper is to review existing practices and literature regarding education curricula in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) within higher education (HE) institutions. The results show that existing DRR/CCA HE practices tend to have a clear disciplinary focus (core knowledge in e.g., enginee…