Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater … increase in natural disasters and population exposure, represented by population densities. Population vulnerability also … population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards - behind the increased frequency of intense natural disasters …

poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … quantify the effects of the drought, relying on spatial variation in drought exposure and the timing of data collection, which …

context. Two years after the disaster, their herds were almost a third larger than those of uninsured households. In many … places, index insurance could be a suitable measure to prevent poverty after extreme weather events. …

to a health crisis and a rapid-onset disaster. It also points to how linking pre-arranged finance to safety nets can help …-onset natural disaster. It also informed the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone, which will provide further …

This paper describes the methodology and findings for the extreme hazard exposure analysis of the Chinese wastewater … earthquake exposure of a spatially accurate wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) database for China, covering a total of 1 … understanding of the vulnerability attributes of WWTPs including their exact location, the number of users they serve as well as …