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Informing decision-making about indoor heat risks to human health

26 Mar 2024
Due to climate change, a growing number of people around world are facing serious health risks from exposure to heat inside their own homes, or in public or privately managed facilities, such as schools, health facilities, prisons or care homes. With...
Research, Heat Wave
Data set

The Resilient Planet Data Hub

22 Mar 2024
The Resilient Planet Data Hub is a resource that provides open data about climate and environmental risks. The hub offers high-quality data that is globally consistent. The hub’s Global Resilience Index (GRI) Risk Viewer compares risks from var...
Data set, Disaster Risk Financing, Risk Assessment
Case Study, Report

DARAJA: The Inclusive City-Community Forecasting and Early Warning Service

21 Mar 2024
The Developing Risk Awareness through Joint Action (DARAJA) project is a collaborative initiative aimed at enhancing weather and climate information services (WCIS) for urban communities, with a particular focus on vulnerable populations residing in ...
Case Study, Report, Community Engagement and Accountability, Early Warning Systems
Case Study

Share Alerte précoce, action précoce au Burkina Faso

19 Mar 2024
Cette étude de cas rend compte des expériences de la Croix-Rouge Burkinabe travaillant sur «Communication des risques pour l’alerte précoce et l’action rapide à l’aide du protocole d’alerte commun (PAC) ». L’étude de cas a été éla...
Case Study, Early Warning Systems
Guidance material

Handbook on disaster law reform – A guide for domestic authorities

15 Mar 2024
This Handbook on Disaster Law Reform provides guidance on how to run an effective and inclusive legal review process, which harnesses the knowledge and experience of a broad range of actors and stakeholders to develop strong legal arrangements for di...
Guidance material, Disaster Law
Awareness material, Report

Urgency of heatwave risk management

13 Mar 2024
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled the ‘Urgency of Heatwave Risk Management’. Heatwaves are not only here to stay but will accelerate in their frequency, severity, loss and damage, at all levels. Read 15 vibrant and realize perspectiv...
Awareness material, Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Heat Wave
Research

Predicting hurricane evacuation decisions with interpretable machine learning methods

13 Mar 2024
The present study proposed a novel interpretable machine learning approach to predict household-level evacuation decisions by leveraging easily accessible demographic and resource-related predictors, compared to existing models that mainly rely on ps...
Research, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Mobile Technology
Research

Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes

13 Mar 2024
Using a high-resolution dataset of 8.2 million households in Bangladesh’s coastal zone, researchers assess the extent to which infrastructure service disruptions induced by flood, cyclone and erosion hazards can thwart progress towards the Sustaina...
Research, Climate Change Adaptation
Case Study

Digitalizing Paper-Based Community mapping in the EVCA

05 Mar 2024
Community mapping in paper-based formats is low-cost, technology-independent, that is easily facilitated, and adopted at the community level. However, the output can be less sustainable compared to digital map products. The digitalization of the comm...
Case Study, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Community Engagement and Accountability, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Risk Assessment
Guidance material

Inclusive early warning early action: checklist and implementation guide

29 Feb 2024
The checklist and implementation guide for inclusive early warning and early action was developed as part of the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Pacific initiative and seeks to contribute to the implementation of the Executive Action P...
Guidance material, Early Warning Systems

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