Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- How growing battles over real estate development and flood risk are playing out in one community on the U.S. East Coast.
- This 5-day course is grounded on IIRR’s decades-long experience in Asia and Africa addressing household food security and livelihoods using regenerative agricultural approaches.
- Over six days, the world’s leading experts and practitioners in disaster and climate risk management and reduction will once again gather to share and explore best practices and innovation in the field.
- A recently published feasibility study identifies potential disaster risk finance and insurance solutions that could provide basic financial protection at scale for family farmers in northern Central America.
- With this year’s freeze harsher than ever, the call for climate risk solutions that are big and bold enough to save Mongolia’s lands and livestock are more pressing than ever.
- This briefing note presents summary findings from the crisis preparedness gap analysis (CPGA) in Nepal. The CPGA provides a shock-agnostic assessment of Nepal’s capacity to deal with crisis events.
- This study is the first in the Philippines to quantify the contemporaneous and long-term effects of temperature shocks on output growth and other channels of economic activity as well as on inflation, which are the primary considerations of the BSP.
- The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is the central bank of the Republic of the Philippines.
- The warning time before a tornado touches down is measured in minutes. Long-term planning on the sunny days when tornadoes aren’t a threat is crucial for preparing for and recovering from these storms.
- The increasing impact of climate change on human mobility and immobility, coupled with misleading narratives, highlights the urgency for comprehensive research on climate-induced migration patterns.