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Displaying 120 of about 802 resultsThis set of reports provides key learnings and a wide selection of case studies on increasing the coherence between humanitarian-development-peace efforts (HDP nexus). Sida has developed a growing diverse portfolio of practical experiences in working at the nexus. These experiences are developed according to context-specific situations and opportunities…
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The workshop will explore factors affecting community and public health system resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and other disasters. By participating you can inform future strategies for strengthening community resilience. The workshop is part of a research project fun…
In this study the authors conducted a bibliometric analysis of the Latin America and Carribean region’s publication record using the Web of Science journal database (WoS), to derive the region's status in the field of flood risk-related research. According to the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of…
The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) is an international and transparent multi-source, consensus assessment of the crop growing conditions, status, and agro-climatic conditions that are likely to impact global production. The CM4EW reports on climate hazards, such as drought, flood, and extreme weather, as well as pests and crop diseases,…
Just like flash floods, flash droughts come on fast — drying out soil in a matter of days to weeks. These events can wipe out crops and cause huge economic losses. And according to scientists, the speed at which they dry out the landscape has increased.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Texas Tec…
This WHO UNFCCC health and climate change country profile for the Commonwealth of Dominica provides a summary of available evidence on climate hazards, health vulnerabilities, health impacts and progress to date in health sector efforts to realize a climate-resilient health system. The WHO and UNFCCC Health and Climate Change Country Profile Projec…
Study 1 examines the frequency and distribution of natural disasters and analyzes their economic and trade effects, both at a macroeconomic and sectoral level. It provides an in-depth analysis of the impacts of these disasters on each of the six countries covered by the field research. The study also includes summaries of the four symposia organized at…
This document presents and analyses the progress made by Brazilian local governments within the framework of the Making Cities Resilient (MCR) Campaign. With the Campaign reaching an end, this report takes the opportunity to monitor the Campaign’s impact, collect local feedback, and make strategic prospections on the future of urban resilience initiativ…
Today, NOAA inaugurated the nation’s newest weather and climate supercomputers with an operational run of the National Blend of Models. The new supercomputers, first announced in February 2020 with a contract award to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), provide a significant upgrade to computing capacity, storage space and interconnect spe…
The dangerous extremes are expected to topple records as the effects of climate change continue to shift weather patterns.
Intense heat in the southwestern United States broke records last summer partly because it hit in tandem with an unusually severe drought, a new Johns Hopkins study shows. The study measured for the first time how the two extreme w…
Tornadoes tore up homes in New Orleans and its suburbs and were reported in communities from Texas to Mississippi and Alabama as severe storms swept across the South in late March 2022. We asked tornado scientist Ernest Agee to explain what causes tornadoes and how the center of U.S. tornado ac…
This paper examines household earthquake preparedness in Oklahoma through a mixed methods study of selected municipalities. Induced seismicity has increased in prevalence in the central United States following an increase in hydraulic fracturing and the resultant disposal of wastewater back into the Earth's crust. At least 22 out of 77 co…
The hallmarks of climate change – such as prolonged drought, record high temperatures, or even increased rainfall – have helped accelerate wildfire risk in California and other western states in North America.
Each wildfire season now tracks well above average. According to CAL FIRE, the 2021 California wildfire season was 58 percent above the five-yea…
In 2019, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) released the Climate Security Plan for America, which called on the U.S. President to “recognize climate change as a vital national security threat, and issue a National Strategy to fulfill a ‘responsibility to prepare for and prevent’ that threat.” Now, three years later, a new progress report ass…
The likelihood of hot, dry, windy autumn weather that can set the stage for severe fires in California and western Oregon has increased 40% due to human-caused climate change, new computer models show.
The study led by Oregon State University’s Linnia Hawkins, which covered 2017 and 2018, looked at the role climate change may have played in extreme fir…