Sweden

National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

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Rural hospitals in northern Sweden face unique disaster preparedness challenges due to isolation and limited resources.

BMC Emergency Medicine
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This paper presents a novel quantitative approach with stakholder participation for simulating local physical interdependencies between multiple infrastructure sectors that may be disrupted by floods.

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (Taylor & Francis)
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This report focuses on sustainable stormwater management in Swedish municipalities and aims to further understanding of the planning and policy context for the implementation of nature-based solutions (NbS) in Sweden.

Stockholm Environment Institute
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This study explored how the Swedish Fire and Rescue Service identifies problems and implements necessary actions during complex problem-solving in emergencies, aiming to increase our understanding of this process.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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Swedes feel vulnerable to cybersecurity, infrastructure, and health threats but show high disaster awareness, trust in authorities, and proactive preparedness, supporting strong disaster resilience.

European Commission
Identifying regional hotspots of heatwaves, droughts, floods, and their co-occurrences
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This paper presents a framework to aid in the selection of optimal environmental indicators for detecting and mapping extreme events and analyzing trends in heatwaves, meteorological and hydrological droughts, floods, and their compound occurrence.

Stockholm Environment Institute
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This study investigated compound flooding in Halmstad using a very comprehensive dataset of regional climate projections including hydrological, meteorological and oceanographic variables.

Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
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This seismic risk profile of Sweden, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM)

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