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Tropical Cyclone (TC) Seroja impacted Timor-Leste with heavy torrential rains over a 24-hour period on April 4, 2021, with an average intensity of over 14 millimeters per hour and a peak intensity of over 70 millimeters per hour. The heavy precipitation and the country's natural topography led...
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Following the magnitude (Mw) 7.8 Turkiye-Syria Earthquake on February 6, 2023 and the Mw 6.3 earthquake on February 20 …
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of the earthquake events, fixed capital damage costs, and the spatial distribution of damages, which can support recovery …
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Following the Herat province (Western Afghanistan) earthquake sequence of October 7 to 15, 2023, the World Bank carried …
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to identify options to strengthen the country's financial resilience to disasters. It includes a review of disaster …
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Historical losses due to hurricanes have been significant in Sint Maarten (SXM) since 1960, with the most severe impact having been experienced in 2017 following Hurricane Irma. The objective of this report is to provide recommendations to the Government of Sint Maarten (GoSXM) for the...
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The objective of this report is to make recommendations for the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica (GoCD) for the formulation of a country-specific comprehensive disaster risk financing (DRF) strategy, based on the assessment of the legislative, financial management, fiscal, and...
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Extremely severe cyclonic storm Mocha made landfall as a Category 4-equivalent cyclone in the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale on Sunday May 14, 2023, at 07:07 UTC (14:07 local time) around Sittwe city, the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar. Given the fragile and conflict-affected situation...
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good news is that in recent decades, the country has made tremendous headway in building its resilience to disasters …. Learning from these efforts will be critical to strengthening resilience building efforts in China and beyond. In that spirit …
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sector stakeholders, and development partners that the industry must act urgently to integrate resilience as a core component … Industries Program, which proposes ways to integrate disaster and climate resilience considerations into the industrial …
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