Disaster risk

Our research recognises that disaster risk and development are closely linked: it is development processes that largely determine who and what is exposed to risk as well how much, and how effectively they can respond. SEI works to integrate disaster risk reduction with equitable, sustainable and resilient development.

Economic development and declining vulnerability to climate-related disasters in China

Journal article / Using China as a case study, this article calls for more nuanced understanding of the different pathways of climate change vulnerability effects.

22 February 2018 / About Disaster risk

Two people on a scooter on a heavily flooded road

Long-term recovery narratives following major disasters in Southeast Asia

Journal article / Improving understanding of the influence that recovery narratives have had on how decisions and actions are undertaken to recover from a disaster.

12 January 2018 / About Disaster risk and Participation

Two women farming in a drought-stricken field.

Gendered experiences of adaptation to drought: patterns of change in El Sauce, Nicaragua

Journal article / Vulnerability is highly diverse and locally specific. This analysis is based on a qualitative case study in a drought-stricken part of northwest Nicaragua.

22 December 2017 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk

Global water governance and climate change: Identifying innovative arrangements for adaptive transformation

Journal article / This CADWAGO paper analyses nine water governance case studies to help illustrate some of the underlying perspectives in water governance.

5 January 2018 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Innovation, Participation and Water resources

Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Project / UNESCAP in Bangkok initiated this working group on increasing economic and technical cooperation to address shared vulnerabilities and risks.

2018 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk

Boys rowing in a flooded urban area in Thailand

“Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia”: A book review

Perspective / This new book aims to sensitize policy agendas and responses to disaster and climate-related hazards to the complexities of human mobility.

10 January 2018 / About Disaster risk

Building resilience through inclusive and climate-adaptive disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific

Project / The programme aims to enhance regional cooperation on inclusive risk reduction approaches by building on good practice examples in the region and offer support.

2018 - 2022 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Climate services, Disaster risk, Geopolitics and Land use

Cars driving through floodwater with trees in the background.

Flood governance: a multiple country comparison of stakeholder perceptions and aspirations

Journal article / Stakeholders in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden perceive that current flood governance arrangements fall far short of inclusive ideals.

20 December 2017 / About Disaster risk and Participation

Variation in perception of environmental change in nine Solomon Islands communities: implications for securing fairness in community-based adaptation

Journal article / This article uses empirical research to highlight the need for mixed approaches to analyse perceptions of environmental change in different communities

22 November 2017 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk