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This research focused on the critical issues of earthquake preparedness in the city of Pokhara, a region at high risk of seismic activity.

The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Badge Manual for the Pakistan Girls Guide Association (PGGA) is a strategic capacity-building resource designed to strengthen disaster resilience in Pakistan by empowering young girls as informed, skilled change agents.

This study first reviews the related work on disaster risks of smart cities and thereby constructs an indicator framework of new disaster risk influencing factors for smart cities.

This brief communication reports findings from a pilot study in Tyrol, Austria, which assessed flood exposure and disaster preparedness in facilities serving people with disabilities.

This report examines Japan’s early warning system as a compelling case study of effective disaster communication, with a particular focus on how mobile network operators contribute to this life-saving infrastructure.

This study analyzes trends in the most frequent natural hazards from 1988 to 2024, examines their underlying causes and consequences, and explores local communities’ diverse perceptions of coping mechanisms and adaptation strategies.

This technical note assesses the state of tourism in Nepal and outlines a pathway toward a more sustainable and climate-resilient tourism sector.

This study aims to map and analyse the evolution, structure, and collaborative dynamics of scholarly output in this interdisciplinary domain through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis.

This paper examines the provision of Urban Disaster Management Authority (UDMA), a new institutional mechanism, that was introduced by the Disaster Management (Amendment) Act, 2025.

This study examines disaster resilience through the lens of social workers, drawing on (1) Mayunga’s capital development theory and (2) scholarship on the three “waves” of resilience.

This policy guidance paper aims to highlight the critical need for stronger links between early action and social protection systems to safeguard vulnerable populations from the impacts of climate-related disasters.

The Climate Finance Country Profiles publication provides a comparative, data-driven snapshot of climate finance needs, flows, gaps, and priorities.

The 2026 Climate and Catastrophe Insight shows that 2025 was a paradoxical year as global disaster activity was relatively subdued, yet losses were highly concentrated and costly.

This report assesses the scale of climate adaptation investment needs across the European Union and its Member States through a bottom-up, sector-based methodology.

This document presents the findings of a mixed-methods study aimed at assessing the prevalence and effectiveness of climate literacy across formal, non-formal, and informal education sectors in Mozambique.

The formative research examines community knowledge, care‑seeking practices, and communication preferences related to climate-sensitive diseases.

This report, Investing in Nature Pathways to Scale Investments in Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation, provides governments, development banks and investors with clear, actionable guidance on how to move NbS from fragmented projects to scalable.

The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2025 report examines the status of key components of national drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems.

This study conducted a comprehensive fire risk evaluation in Jinan City using five machine learning models—Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt), Light Gradient-Boosting Machine, and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).

This paper presents a comprehensive critical review of 250 studies published between January 2010 and September 2023 that examine how social media data have been used to manage disasters triggered by natural hazards.

This annual report summarizes preliminary global loss totals and major catastrophe events that occurred throughout 2025.

A new paper from the Pacific Community’s Climate Finance Unit responds to gaps in recent global analyses including the Green Climate Fund’s Independent Evaluation Unit Access Report, which reflects limited reference to Pacific experience.

This paper shares findings from a study of the impact of temperature and rainfall on the incidence of noncommunicable diseases among older people in India.

This knowledge note provides a short overview of IWFRM approaches and select examples of different initiatives and approaches.

This paper presents a fully probabilistic assessment of coastal flood risk to Europe’s surface transport infrastructure at different levels of global warming.

This publication presents an edited collection that explores how health systems can mitigate crises and ongoing stresses to remain functional and effective over time.

The Office of the National Public Auditor in the Federated States of Micronesia concluded that the country’s planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of climate change adaptation actions require significant improvement.

This study develops habitability functions to quantify the relationship between hydrodynamic hazards and the probability of buildings becoming uninhabitable following Hurricane Irma.

This review systematically examines and synthesizes over 400 studies, with a primary focus on literature from the last six years (2020–2025), alongside key foundational works.

This report explores the perspectives of agro-pastoralist men and women in Toch East and Pathuon West Payams in South Sudan on how flooding and conflict impact their lives and livelihoods.

In this article, the authors assess the challenges and opportunities for reducing climate impacts on housing within U.S. coastal communities, based on 64 interviews with experts across housing-relevant public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

This study examines multi-hazard risk across twenty coastal cities in the United States by accounting for a range of potential hazards, socioeconomic conditions, adaptive capacities, and infrastructure vulnerabilities.

This publication examines how recurrent flooding in Guadalajara, Mexico, is not the result of isolated hydrometeorological events but the outcome of long-standing socio-spatial, institutional, and historical processes shaped by inequality.

Drawing on insights from policymakers, development finance institutions, insurers, asset managers, and climate experts, this report examines how Asia can unlock private capital at scale to finance heat resilience.

This study present the Floodport app – an educational interactive tool that puts students in the role of coastal risk analysts exploring how natural hazards threaten port safety.

This publication presents a dynamic framework for assessing and improving urban resilience to extreme rainfall, focusing on more than 220 Chinese cities between 2019 and 2022.

This guidance, supports project-related financing teams as well as risk professionals within financial institutions, by outlining how to conduct nature-based risk assessments at the corporate, portfolio and project levels using existing frameworks.

This study investigates community engagement in fostering disaster preparedness in the Kepuharjo and Umbulharjo, the most vulnerable villages of Merapi slopes in the Cangkringan District of Sleman Regency.

This study provides robust causal evidence of gender disparities in post-flood business recovery in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region, analyzing 465 enterprises affected by major floods in 2011, 2017, and 2022

The report outlines how the 31‑state Mississippi River Basin is confronting rising risks from flooding, drought, extreme weather, nutrient pollution, and aging water infrastructure.

This publication examines how heat waves are increasingly disrupting interconnected food, energy, and water (FEW) systems, creating cascading risks that undermine resilience and sustainability.

The Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment Landscape Series by the Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) aims to provide a summary of available climate and disaster risk analysis and information in the chosen country.

The report sets out the latest numbers tracking global finance flows to Nature-based Solutions (NbS). Findings show that NbS not only contribute to nature-positive outcomes, but provide highly cost-effective disaster risk reduction solutions.

The Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment Landscape Series by the Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) aims to provide a summary of available climate and disaster risk analysis and information in GRMA partner countries.

This study aims to establish a scientific basis for airport operational management under severe weather conditions, thereby enhancing resilience and response capabilities.

This framework, developed through an IOM-led collaborative initiative, outlines effective approaches to building resilience among vulnerable communities facing climate-related stress and shocks, while harnessing migration’s positive contributions.

This study argues that household water security is far from universal in the urban Global North, resulting in uneven capacities and strategies to adapt to heat, outside and within the home.

This study investigates ecosystem impacts of marine heatwaves (MHWs) in the Western Mediterranean Sea using a spatially explicit Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) food web modelling framework.

This paper describes the end-to-end early warning system developed for the Naples-Rome high-speed railway that integrates seismic monitoring, advanced signal processing, and railway-specific protocols to enhance the management of railway operation.