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The UCL WRC is unique in bringing together global expertise to explore the role of warnings in managing vulnerabilities, hazards, threats, risks, and disasters.
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Just 2 weeks to go until our next event!
Join us online as we launch Santiago Zabala's latest book 'Signs from the Future: A philosophy of warnings'.

📅 26 November, 3.00PM GMT
💻 Online/Zoom - join from wherever you are in the world!
✏️ Book your free place now: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
Book launch: Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings by Santiago Zabala
Join the UCL Warning Research Centre as we host the launch of the latest book by Prof Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Spain.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
How to bolster food security through global early-warning systems www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
www.chathamhouse.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Reposted by UCL Warning Research Centre
Delighted to see two pieces in @NatureGeosci as part of the '40 years after the Armero tragedy’ special edition: Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises lnkd.in/erQ5Tkkf & Towards effective institutional hazard management Q&A lnkd.in/e7MFKZMX @stsucl.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Strengthening early warning systems for anticipatory action - SEWAA project: Mid term achievements docs.wfp.org/api/document...
docs.wfp.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The technology dividend: Empowering and protecting communities through early warnings: www.undp.org/geneva/blog/...
The technology dividend: Empowering and protecting communities through early warnings
Early warning systems remain among the most effective and cost-efficient methods for reducing disaster-relat
www.undp.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Why heat warnings need to get more local dialogue.earth/en/climate/w...
Why heat warnings need to get more local
As cities are warming in very uneven ways, experts say heat warnings need to become more granular to save lives
dialogue.earth
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Anticipatory action in the Pacific by @UNDRR www.preventionweb.net/media/112239...
www.preventionweb.net
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard theconversation.com/hurricane-me...
Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard
In a single day, Melissa exploded from a moderate storm into a major hurricane with 170mph winds.
theconversation.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Proposing a community-led digital early-warning system: integrating climate resilience with protection programming in South Asia odihpn.org/en/publicati...
Proposing a community-led digital early-warning system: integrating climate resilience with protection programming in South Asia | Humanitarian Practice Network
Proposing a community-led digital early warning system that integrates hyperlocal climate data with protection programming to combat flood risks.
odihpn.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Anticipatory action in the Pacific by @UNDRR www.preventionweb.net/media/111972...
www.preventionweb.net
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
How climate information and early warning systems protect lives and economies climatepromise.undp.org/ciews
How climate information and early warning systems protect lives and economies | UNDP Climate Promise
Climate information and early warning systems underpin risk-informed development and adaptation planning.
climatepromise.undp.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Early warning and early action in Fiji by @UNDRR www.preventionweb.net/media/111975...
www.preventionweb.net
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Early warning and early action in Kiribati by @undrr www.preventionweb.net/media/111978...
www.preventionweb.net
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Early warning and early action in Samoa by @UNDRR www.preventionweb.net/media/111981...
www.preventionweb.net
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Designing effective flood early warning systems: a review of barriers, best practices, and key characteristics in the Journal of Flood Risk Management (Wiley) www.preventionweb.net/publication/...
Designing effective flood early warning systems: a review of barriers, best practices, and key characteristics
This paper completes a narrative review and synthesizes best practices in FEWS warning and system design, and introduces a “FEWS Around the World” repository which catalogs 3–4 examples per region…
www.preventionweb.net
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Early warning and early action in Solomon Islands: www.preventionweb.net/media/111984...
www.preventionweb.net
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Framework for early warning of animal health threats by @FAO. This framework lays out the technical objectives and the structural and institutional set-up for the operationalization and management of EWS against infectious animal diseases openknowledge.fao.org/items/255461...
Framework for early warning of animal health threats
Increasing the number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies is a key indicator of the Priority Programme Area on One Health (OH PPA), which falls under the…
openknowledge.fao.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
How climate information and early warning systems protect lives and economies climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-sto...
How climate information and early warning systems protect lives and economies | UNDP Climate Promise
Climate information and early warning systems underpin risk-informed development and adaptation planning.
climatepromise.undp.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM