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Situated in the Indian Sundarbans, this study uncovers how and why advances in scientific knowledge and technological developments are failing to enhance resilience of the marginal and vulnerable populations, instead unmaking their lived environments.
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Mumbai city is increasingly at risk of the impacts of climate change. Increasing temperatures, depleting natural green cover, routine bouts of extreme rainfall events resulting in severe flood conditions incur severe losses
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Disasters are never gender-neutral. This January - February 2022 issue covers all such aspects of disasters that are often neglected.
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This issue is dedicated to different dimensions of building resilience in floods. This May - June 2022 issue brings different articles, relevant news, viewpoints and studies, and information about recent books around its central theme.
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These flood hazard atlases of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal were prepared using satellite remote sensing data.
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This paper explores how climate change-induced migration is creating physical health, mental health and wellbeing issues — both for migrants and the families they leave behind, through case study analysis from 12 regions in Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
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This paper explains how best to equip social protection programmes to help communities better absorb the effects of climate risks, adapt to climate impacts and transform their capacities to address growing climate stresses.
This image shows the cover of the publication "Climate investment opportunities in India's cooling sector".
The study finds that finance by multilateral development banks, financial institutions and the private sector will play a role in helping India develop financial instruments and models to accelerate the adoption of sustainable cooling measures.

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