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Canada’s flood shows how disasters combine to do extra damage

Risk assessments typically measure the impacts of one event at a time without considering how an earlier one might have influenced it.

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2021

Responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19: impact on service provision, strategies and actions in the WHO European Region (2021)

This report explores the strategies led by government, nongovernmental and civil society organizations to prevent and respond to violence against women and children (‎VAWC)‎ during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact on service demand across Europe.
World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe
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Global migration and the complex interplay between environmental and social factors

Venla Niva shares insights from a recent article exploring the interplay of environmental and social factors behind human migration. The project was carried out in collaboration with Raya Muttarak from the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
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How corn links Jamaica’s food supply to climate change in the US Midwest

In Jamaica, maize is an essential part of diets, and while some of the grain is grown locally, the vast majority comes from the US. How will this deep dependency on US maize affect both the economy and food security for Jamaica in a changing climate?
Stockholm Environment Institute
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WRD Knowledge Hub Key Resources

This collection has been collated by UN Women for the WRD Knowledge Hub, drawing upon the PreventionWeb library.
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Implementation guides for the Sendai Framework
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Learning from Past Disasters
Turkey: Izmit earthquake 1999

In August 1999, an earthquake in the city of Izmit killed thousands and left hundreds of thousands homeless

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Blog: DRR VOICES

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Interview

Pratima Gurung: “All too-often, indigenous women with disabilities are invisible”

Pratima says the pandemic has brought challenges for everyone but she says the impact for people with disabilities, indigenous people and ethnic minorities are different from others in culture and context.
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Interview

Alyssa Thurston: “Engage women & girls as advocates for disaster risk reduction & climate adaptation”

More needs to be done to recognize GBV as a core disaster management issue. Alyssa Thurston thinks one reason policies have failed to support women is because they have not adequately included women in disaster planning.
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Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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