Increasingly severe climate conditions impose growing pressure on populations and economies around the world. The implications on economic growth,...

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) aims to build resilience, globally, by working with multiple stakeholders to trigger rapid transformation in...

Floods cause more damage worldwide to human life and property than any other type of natural disaster. This trend shows no sign of abating. Many of...

The Zurich Flood Resilience Measurement Tool is an innovation in community flood resilience theory and practice. Large-scale application in over 70...

Making the case for pre-event disaster risk reduction Large-scale flood disasters in recent years vividly demonstrate the need to invest in risk...

This presentation provides an update on flood resilience measurement implementation and key learning based on 5C-4R flood resilience measurement...

In late May and early June 2016, storms ‘Elvira’ and ‘Friederike’ resulted in extreme rainfall exceeding 180 mm in some regions of southern Germany....

This review examines good practices to reduce disaster risk through education, knowledge and innovation (including efforts to protect schools from...

To be useful for operational programs, measures of resilience must not just be valid, but be easy to use and useful. Unfortunately, while resilience...