Urban risk & planning

This theme contributes to the understanding of urban risk, which includes urban hazards, exposure and vulnerability. It also covers aspects related to improving awareness, as well as local governance and local capacity to effectively reduce disaster risk.

Latest Urban risk & planning additions in the Knowledge Base

A traffic officer drinks water during a hot day in Kolkata, India
Update
With over two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, new global data on the 1,000 largest cities highlights growing hazards and the urgent need for climate adaptation investment.
World Resources Institute
Update
The InsuResilience Solutions Fund under the InsuResilience Global Partnership Vision 2025 is spearheading a series of innovative insurance projects across the world to protect millions of vulnerable people from climate-induced disasters.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Tourists traverse the side of a road eroded by floods in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand
Research briefs
Urban growth, climate change, and flood risk at lower elevations can push people to live on steeper, more dangerous terrain.
American Geophysical Union
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Documents and publications
The factsheet shares insights on factors that are important for disaster risk reduction strategies in urban areas based on the example of Beau Bassin-Rose Hill in Mauritius.
Cover and source: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH
Documents and publications
This factsheet shares insights on factors that are important for DRR strategies in urban areas and formulates eight recommendations for the involvement of different sectors in the disaster risk management of African cities.
Update
Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t just about the climate and weather – it also depends on the people and property in harm’s way.
Conversation Media Group, the
Research briefs
Getting around on a rainy day often involves dodging puddles – or sloshing through them. But during downpours, shallow pools can quickly become roadway ponds that cripple transportation, threaten safety and undermine emergency response.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLAB)
Research briefs
Summer storms are generally more frequent, intense and concentrated over cities than over rural areas, according to new, detailed observations of eight cities and their surroundings.
American Geophysical Union
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