Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- This article highlights the need for enacting COVID-19 countermeasures in advance of seasonal increases in natural hazards. The authors argue that the inclusion of natural hazard inputs into COVID-19 epidemiological models could enhance the evidence base for: informing contemporary policy across diverse multi-hazard scenarios, defining and...
- The Southwest Pacific is considered one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to natural hazards. This policy report explores disaster governance in the Southwest Pacific as an area of potential cooperation for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Particular attention is paid to Fiji and Tonga, both of which, like their counterparts...
- New study shows logging of native forests increases the risk and severity of fire and likely had a profound effect on the recent catastrophic Australian bushfires.
- This research combines simple epidemiological models with natural hazard curves to investigate potential scenarios and develops recommendations.
- Trusted, timely, accurate, simple and widely shared risk information saves lives, particularly when it reaches the last mile and is used by vulnerable communities
- A new learning paper by Acclimatise provides an insight on the lessons learnt from implementing Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness projects in the Caribbean.
- Hundreds of tornadoes raked the US, including an outbreak of more than 140 tornadoes on April 12 and 13 that wrought a path of destruction from Texas to Maryland.
- How do we support communities in preparing for and building resilience to such compound events like disasters and infectious diseases?
- Using the historic and current human climate niches shows us just how many people in the world will be shifted out of their current climate range due to global warming.
- This document provides a review of disaster deaths, economic losses, human impacts and the worst affected countries in 2019. In 2019, at least 396 natural disasters were reported in EM-DAT killing 11,755 people, affecting 95 million others and costing nearly 130 billion US$. The number of events this year is slightly over the average of the last 10...