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.

Stormy waves crash against a pier in a coastal urban area with a lone person walking on the platform.

Managing Sweden’s growing climate risks: droughts, floods and heatwaves

Feature / SEI researchers call for proactive strategies to manage Sweden’s interconnected climate risks and their cascading effects.

17 March 2025 / About Adaptation, Climate services, Disaster risk, Planning and modelling and Water resources

Power in balance

Podcast series / A podcast about sustainability and justice. In each episode, experts explore how power dynamics create and sustain social and environmental inequities.

About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Forests, Land use and Renewables

Environment and policy in Asia

Podcast series / SEI Asia's podcast series is a platform for dialogue on critical environmental challenges in Asia and how to address them.

About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Food and agriculture, Pollution and Public policy

An aerial view shows the flooded area caused by heavy rains across Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region, a private house is fully surrounded by water.

ClimaResponse – Responsive Local Action for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

Project / ClimaResponse aims to enhance the capacities of regional and local public authorities to efficiently plan and implement climate resilience strategies.

2025 - 2028 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk

Hydrometeorological resilience assessment of interconnected critical infrastructures

Journal article / This study models flood risks to critical infrastructure in Halmstad, Sweden, identifying key vulnerabilities and cascading failure risks.

17 February 2025 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Mitigation, Planning and modelling and Public policy

A coastal wetland featuring lush green mangroves with exposed roots, shallow water channels, and sandy banks. White egrets stand in the background, highlighting the rich biodiversity of the ecosystem.

Living lab offers new approach to mangrove rehabilitation in the Caribbean

Feature / The Resilient Coasts project launches its first "living lab", uniting science and local knowledge to restore mangroves and protect coasts.

14 February 2025 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk, Ecosystems, Finance and Participation

A Health agent of the City of Rio de Janeiro performs a COVID-19 rapid test on Aloizio dos Santos, 78, while another writes down the information of the person at Morro da Mangueira (favela) on September 3, 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Gore capitalism and necropolitics in Brazil’s malgovernance of the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal article / In this article, the authors analyze Brazil’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic through a critical analytical lens.

7 February 2025 / About Disaster risk, Public policy, Sanitation and Wellbeing

What’s “holding back change”? Opportunities and challenges for the ‘participation’ and ‘inclusion’ of people with diverse SOGIESC in disaster risk reduction

Journal article / This paper intends to explore some of the opportunities and challenges for participatory projects to generate more sustainable and inclusive DRR practices.

3 February 2025 / About Disaster risk

Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa

Journal article / This article highlights the benefits of a co-creative, narrative-based methodology used to solicit residents' input for building resilience to floods in Africa.

28 January 2025 / About Adaptation, Climate services and Disaster risk