In 2018, the state of Kerala witnessed large-scale flooding, which affected millions of people and caused 400 or more deaths. This document examines the return period of extreme rainfall and the potential role of reservoirs in the recent flooding.
This report presents the results of the rapid assessment of the damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Sagar in Djibouti City and the most affected areas, and offers recommendations and a preliminary estimate of recovery and reconstruction needs.
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
The Southwest monsoon season 2018 resulted in devastating flooding in Kerala. This memorandum details the impact of the flooding across all major state sectors, including agriculture, fisheries, housing, utilities, and infrastructure.
This economic and disaster recovery plan lays out the Government of Puerto Rico’s strategic vision and goals and provides a detailed framework for achieving them.
This study aims to fill a knowledge gap on the extent to which community-level mitigation activities impact business disaster recovery efforts in the US. Using data gathered from 25 semi-structured interviews with businesses and local government staff
The development of sustainable insurance solutions requires thorough risk assessment, modelling and layering. Agricultural and climate risks are mainly of a systemic nature, i.e. they affect a large geographic area or large parts of the population
This paper demonstrates the result of data analytics undertaken on the massive building damage survey data collected by the Government of Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquakes. The data of more than 1 million buildings contained geo-coded information of
This paper presents an in-depth examination of the community experience of home buyouts, a perspective that is noticeably lacking in the literature. Using data from two mixed-method empirical studies, the study explored the implications of buyout program
