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  • This article discusses how in recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on achieving convergence in disaster research, policy, and programs to reduce disaster losses and enhance social well-being. However, there remain consider able gaps in understanding ‘‘how do we actually do convergence?’’It presents...
    PreventionWeb Publications on Friday, 26 March 2021
  • For the world's poorest people, COVID-19 has brought an unparalleled social and economic shock. For those living in fragility and conflict, the challenge is compounded.
    PreventionWeb News on Friday, 26 March 2021
  • Even where municipalities know they are in harm's way, the market knows that if climate-related disasters happen, the city or county will be bailed out.
    PreventionWeb News on Friday, 26 March 2021
  • The concept of DRR in Bangladesh has brought about a paradigm shift from 'reactive relief-based measures to proactive integrated management approach'.
    PreventionWeb News on Friday, 26 March 2021
  • As climate change impacts worsen, Australia's population is exposed to more severe floods, droughts and bushfires, while action to protect people and their homes lags.
    PreventionWeb News on Friday, 26 March 2021
  • This report highlights the risk of a sharply diverging world in the near term where the gaps between rich and poor widen because some countries lack the necessary financial resources to combat the COVID-19 crisis and its socioeconomic impact. Short-term risks are compounded by growing systemic risks that threaten to further derail progress, such as...
    PreventionWeb Publications on Thursday, 25 March 2021
  • This publication discusses how global climate projections suggest a significant intensification of summer heat extremes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). To assess regional impacts, and underpin mitigation and adaptation measures, robust information is required from climate downscaling studies, which has been lacking for the region.It projects...
    PreventionWeb Publications on Thursday, 25 March 2021
  • This publication discusses how the Republic Act(RA) 10121, or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM) Act of 2010, has led to the passing of complementary legislation and functional policy, bureaucratic and institutional augmentations and directed government budgeting and spending. Key thematic mandates were given to NGAs, while the...
    PreventionWeb Publications on Thursday, 25 March 2021
  • Every year, millions of people around the world are being displaced from their homes due to climate-related disasters. River flooding is responsible for a large part of this displacement. Previous studies have shown that river flood risk is expected to change as a result of global warming and its effects on the hydrological cycle. At the same time,...
    PreventionWeb Publications on Thursday, 25 March 2021
  • This issue focuses on climate resilience. Increasingly dangerous climate impacts are beginning to unravel decades of hard-won sustainable development gains. Floods, droughts, cyclones, fires and rising seas are hitting the poorest and most vulnerable hardest, while efforts to prepare for and manage these risks - although oftentimes innovative and effective...
    PreventionWeb Publications on Thursday, 25 March 2021