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A groundbreaking report by the World Bank, Drought Risk and Resilience Assessment Methodology: A Proactive Approach to ...

Tanzania" highlights how climate change intensifies health risks like vector-borne diseases, malnutrition, and mental health ...

Patrick Stone lays out the five steps of a vulnerability assessment for a new firehouse that identifies ways that the building can be hardened against natural disasters via ...

An international study has investigated the causes and impacts of the devastating flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023, which destroyed ...

An international research team has concluded that the Sikkim flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023 was caused by some 14.7 million cubic meters of frozen moraine material collapsing into ...

Impacts of the LA fires on the the Latino community - the country's largest by percentage - are acute and will be long ...

Notably, these hazard zones include the regions where ... According to an October 2024 draft Climate Vulnerability Assessment from the office of LA City Planning, officials and researchers took ...

The City of Key West is conducting a Climate Vulnerability Assessment to assess future climate threats such as sea-level rise, storm surge, heavy rain, high tides, extreme flooding, heat, wind ...

However, despite the need for accurate climate change risk assessment, significant misconceptions in key risk terms, including vulnerability and impact ... on and the special features of each climate ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic ... This simple fact led us to investigate the vulnerability of incarcerated people to climate ...