Compound weather and climate events describe combinations of multiple climate drivers
and/or hazards that contribute to societal or environmental risk. Although many climate …

As a discipline, the science of natural hazards and disaster risk aims to explain the spatial-
temporal pattern, process and mechanism, emergency response and risk mitigation of …

Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in
low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people …

Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

On 3 April 2020, the Director-General of the WHO stated:“COVID-19 is much more than a
health crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the …

Sandy beaches occupy more than one-third of the global coastline and have high
socioeconomic value related to recreation, tourism and ecosystem services. Beaches are …

Delivering infrastructure, resilient to multiple natural hazards and climate change, is
fundamental to continued economic prosperity and social coherence. This is a strategic …

Disaster losses are increasing and evidence is mounting that climate change is driving up
the probability of extreme natural shocks,–. Yet it has also proved politically expedient to …

The ports sector is critical to global transport and trade. Climate change may compromise
port operations, resulting in an increase in operational shutdowns and subsequent …