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This report examines the impact the coronavirus crisis has had on the general cybersecurity threat landscape during the first two quarters of 2020. This report highlights that the coronavirus pandemic has generated a set of remarkable and psycho-​societal, technical, and logistical-​economic circumstances upon which malicious actors have capitalized.The...

This trend analysis examines artificial intelligence, digitalization, climate change. Many overarching trends and developments have the potential to alter the lives of billions of people in the coming years. For society, most of these trends represent both a challenge and an opportunity. In any case, they will also affect the civil protection system...

This paper profiles the vulnerability, risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change of Cambodia. Cambodia is vulnerable to floods and droughts, mostly due to reliance on agriculture and fisheries. Cambodia’s National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA) was published in October 2006. It prioritizes actions in response to current and projected...

This paper profiles the vulnerability, risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change of Pakistan. A National Adaptation Programme of Action has yet to be published, but Pakistan’s Initial National Communication on Climate Change (2003) identifies many of the country’s urgent needs for adaptation action. Further research and possible...

This paper profiles the vulnerability, risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change of Indonesia. According to Indonesia’s National Action Plan Addressing Climate Change, the national adaptation agenda needs to focus on water resources, agriculture, fisheries, coastal and marine ecosystems, infrastructure and settlement, health,...

This paper profiles the vulnerability, risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change of the Philippines. The Philippines’ main economic sectors are agriculture and industry, with agriculture contributing 14% of GDP and employing over a third of the population. Commonly occurring hazards include floods, droughts, typhoons,...

This paper profiles the vulnerability, risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change of Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi economy is based predominantly on agriculture, forestry, and fishing, though recently it has diversified to include manufacturing. Manufacturing contributes more than agriculture to the national income, steadily increasing its percentage...

This comprehensive desk review aims to address the European Commissions’ requirement to support better-informed decision making on climate adaptation at multiple governance levels: it provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and forward looking overview of the range of technical, financial, economic and non-monetary models and tools for hazards,...

The authors set out a framework for systematically recording key details of high-impact events on a national scale (using the UK and Puerto Rico as examples), combining recent advances in event attribution with the risk framework. These ‘inventories’ inherently provide useful information depending on a user’s interest....

This paper examines humanitarian engineering at the sustainability-development nexus by evaluating mapping vulnerability and capability factors for communities at risk of water-based disasters. Access to resources that is equitable and sustainable provides a critical foundation for community harmony and development. Both natural and human-induced disasters...