Anticipatory action (AA) is a growing area of climate and disaster risk management that
emphasizes the use of climate services and risk analyses to predict where crises might strike …

International humanitarian organisations increasingly turn to forecast teams to support the
coordination of efforts to respond to disasters caused by hazards such as tropical cyclones …

Worldwide, reservoirs are used to buffer against both extreme floods and extreme droughts.
However, operations favoring each of these and other management objectives conflict …

Globally, the direct cost of natural disasters stands in the hundreds of billions of USD per
year, at a time when water resources are under increasing stress and variability. Much of this …

Anticipatory actions are increasingly being taken before an extreme flood event to reduce
the impacts on lives and livelihoods. Local contextualized information is required to support …

Streamflow forecasts have the potential to improve water resource decision-making, but their
economic value has not been widely evaluated, since current forecast value methods have …

The Northeast of Brazil (NEB) is the region with the highest number of municipal decrees of
emergency situation declaration caused by weather events in the period from 2013 to 2022 …

Floods are far-flung natural disasters with significant socio-economic impacts and this
demand appropriate management strategies and predictions. Flood prediction could be an …

Improvements in forecasting technologies provide an opportunity to take anticipatory actions
before disasters occur. However, traditional ex-post financing and lack of operational …

The Northeast of Brazil (NEB) is the region with the highest number of municipal decrees of
emergency situation declaration caused by weather events in the period from 2013 to 2022 …