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Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

Antigua and Barbuda Hurricane Damage
Research briefs

Researchers use 3D visualization to predict, prevent hurricane damage

Galveston Island was used as an example to predict damage that would occur as a result of hurricanes of varying intensities.
Texas A&M University System
The Burden of Floods
Update

We are all connected: What to know about transboundary climate risks

At last year’s COP28 in Dubai, parties recognized for the first time the transboundary nature of climate change impacts, the importance of complex and cascading risks, and the need for knowledge-sharing and international cooperation to address them.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Pregnant woman sitting on a bench
Research briefs

"How did we miss this for so long?” The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

The research published in 2010, and even though focused on California, was the first large-scale epidemiological study looking at preterm delivery and temperature conducted anywhere in the world.
Eos - AGU
Aerial view on damaged red single house roof after strong wind
Update

The critical role of housing in climate adaptation

Over 1 billion lack reliable, safe, and affordable basic needs such as basic housing, running water, electricity, and sanitation. However, providing access to decent housing can improve their resilience to climate change.
Climate Adaptation Platform
Illustration with Black men and women
Update

Intersecting realities: Four approaches to making locally-led adaptation more inclusive

The impacts of climate change disproportionately affect the least prepared and most disadvantaged. Locally-led adaptation initiatives must recognise these intersectional power imbalances to be truly empowering.
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
A thermometer showing high temperatures. A city is blurred in the background.
Research briefs

In European cities, heatwaves hit the most vulnerable

According to a new study, urban areas across Europe are home to high levels of social inequality when it comes to granting access to green spaces, which are considered among the most effective solutions to mitigating the worse effects of heatwaves.
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Wetland
Update

Once used as trash dumps, Sri Lanka’s wetlands are remade as flood-buffering parks

If Colombo can harness its nearly 5,000 acres of wetlands to limit destruction wrought by floods, it would provide valuable lessons for cities around the world, as climate change makes rainfall and water levels more dangerous with each passing year.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
SIDS4: Ensuring a Multi-hazard approach in the implementation of the Early Warning for All Initiative (EW4ALL)
Update

Four things you should know: Climate change & Small Island Developing States—by the numbers

SIDS rank amongst some of the world’s most vulnerable countries, highly exposed to external shocks, global warming-induced rising sea levels and other risks due to climate change.
World Bank, the
Australian native performing traditional ritual with fire.
Update

New StoryMap explores how traditional knowledge addresses climate impacts

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre today launches an ArcGIS StoryMap that highlights the role of traditional knowledge in addressing climate change and extreme weather.
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre
Several men harvesting in a field
Update

Heat hazards and migrant rights: Protecting agricultural workers in a changing climate

There is a pressing need for comprehensive heat safety regulations to safeguard our food production and protect farmworkers from the intensifying threats of climate change.
Federation of American Scientists
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