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Heatwaves and chronic water shortages in Australia are endangering life-saving kidney treatment for Aboriginal people in remote communities.

Phase II of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance was launched in July 2018. The first year largely focused on setting up the internal systems and structures to achieve broader objectives. Combining investment in these systems and structures with leveraging Phase I successes is already leading to promising contributions to flood resilience policy and...

By using the latest China population grid and land-use data, the changing exposure of China’s population and land uses to the hazards of storm surges, droughts, earthquakes, floods, and landslides from 1995 to 2015 was assessed.It was found that the single-hazard areas and the multi-hazard areas covered 43% and 26% of China’s territory,...

Wildfires are an ever-increasing threat for many residents of urban-rural interfaces located in wildfire-prone areas. Spatial planning is an important aspect of contending with wildfire risk, as it has the potential to modify the design, location and characteristics of settlements. However, planning systems can struggle to integrate actions...

The 2019/20 fire season is well underway with multiple large bushfires occurring since the release of the previous Outlook in August. Queensland and New South Wales in particular have experienced severe fires, but all states have had challenging fire conditions. Catastrophic fire danger ratings have been issued in NSW, Western Australia, South...

The identification of flood-prone areas is a fundamental component of rational urban planning and proper natural disaster management policy. The aim of the present study is to introduce a framework for the identification of flood-prone areas using geographical information systems techniques and decision-making, based on a comparative evaluation for...

With the acceleration of urbanization in China, urban flood disasters have gradually become a prominent type of urban disease, seriously affected the normal production and life of urban residents, and brought great challenges to urban flood control and disaster reduction work. Based on the current situation of urban flood control in Pinghu City and...

Bush fires are a public health emergency and the Australian government must take concrete steps.

Article in Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction examines UN-HABITAT's City Resilience Action Planning's impact on building government capacity, investment, and reform.

Inspiring and shaping how journalists and representatives of National DRR authorities engage leads to better preparedness and community empowerment.