These country profiles have been developed as part of the EU-ACP Programme “Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities”.
This study aims to review and disseminate the results of a pilot project for the development of competencies of Kyrgyzstan officials and specialists in the field of monitoring drought events achieved in 2018-2022.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
In this study, a novel approach for the combined assessment of landslide, flood, and earthquake hazard susceptibility was proposed and evaluated in a region in the Elazig Province of Türkiye, which is tectonically active and vulnerable to multi-hazards.
With heat waves forecast for March-May in India, climate scientists are worried about an increased possibility of deaths if human body temperatures exceed the “wet bulb” threshold of 35°C.
This paper uses geospatial analyses to create a COVID Vulnerability Mapping Dashboard that examines and displays social vulnerability indices at the national and subnational levels in Indonesia.
New research reveals wastewater injected underground by fossil fuel operators caused a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in November 2022 in the Peace River area of Alberta’s oil sands region.
Flash floods are damaging to the lives and property of vulnerable people, but could a 'SMART' approach help to better signal impending risk from flooding?
