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Co-designing climate services to support adaptation to natural hazards: two case studies from Sweden

SEI brief / Two Swedish case studies offer insights about how to improve "co-design" processes to support climate change adaptation planning for natural hazards.

Ten ways to support climate change adaptation planning and decision-making

SEI brief / Here are 10 ways that climate service providers can support climate change adaptation planning and decision-making.

HydroHazards

Project / The project examines how exposure and vulnerability to water hazards impact infrastructures and populations in Sweden.

The empty houses that foreign aid built

Media coverage / The failure of aid agencies to "rebuild better" after the 2004 tsunami.

Political Capabilities for Equitable Resilience (POL-CAPS)

Project / Including marginalized groups in development and disaster risk planning in Nepal and Thailand.

Deltas face the brunt of unsustainable development and climate impacts – we must move beyond concrete to shore them up

Perspective / Asian River Deltas make up "the breadbasket of the world" but are sinking and shrinking due to climate change and poor management. How do we respond?

2019 Asia-Pacific Disaster Report shows a region at risk and running out of time

Perspective / The new Asia-Pacific Disaster Report reveals an alarming new "riskscape" in the region regularly labelled as the most disaster-prone in the world.

Dancing rivers of Myanmar – mapping moves from space

Perspective / SEI and its partners are developing a new seasonal river morphological monitoring and warning system to help with flood forecasting in Myanmar.

Bangkok: The sinking city faces severe climate challenges

Media coverage / Rapid urbanization and severe land subsidence puts Bangkok on the watch list of most vulnerable cities in Asia affected by climate change.