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Poverty is both a risk driver and consequence of disasters. These resources explore the nexus between poverty and disasters, as well as efforts to reduce disaster risks for vulnerable populations.

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Climate risk and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

This study maps how climate change-driven heatwaves, droughts, and air pollution disproportionately affect the poor in MENA, identifying hotspots in Yemen and Morocco. It uses high-res data to guide disaster risk management and resilience planning.

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Modern slavery and climate change: how extreme weather fuels forced labour and unwanted marriages

Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't been explored much yet is how extreme weather events are creating conditions for a rise in modern slavery.

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Case study reveals connection between flood vulnerability and green spaces

A Philadelphia-focused case study conducted by Princeton researcher Sina Razzaghi Asl explores the relationship between high flood risk communities and green spaces.

Princeton University
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Poverty impacts of the Pakistan flood 2022

This paper demonstrates how real-time satellite data, in combination with administrative data and historical household survey data, can be used to model the impact of 2022 floods on Pakistani households.

Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (Springer)
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Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke linked to increased risk of dementia diagnosis, new study finds

New research links the long-term exposure of this wildfire smoke to brain health, suggesting that it greatly increases risk of dementia compared with other sources of air pollution.

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Unidentified street vendor works with reused tin containers at Port Blair, India (2012)
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A storm blows in inequality – 3 solutions to adapt to climate change while fighting poverty

Poor and marginalized communities suffer more harm when disasters hit and recover more slowly. Hurricane Mitch in 1998 provides a classic example: it triggered an 18 percent asset loss for low-income Hondurans.

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries: Evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad

This paper focuses on Lake Chad, which used to be the 11th largest lake in the world. Lake Chad, which is the size of El Salvador, Israel, or Massachusetts, slowly shrank by 90 percent for exogenous reasons between 1963 and 1990.

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A look into poverty and disaster preparedness in Haiti

Most people would remember the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010 claiming the lives of more than 220,000 Haitians. This tragedy brought the country's longstanding struggle with disasters to the forefront of global attention.

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Why climate action is critical to reducing poverty and what it means for policy tradeoffs

Climate change, and the increase in temperature, rainfall extremes and storms that it brings will have a big impact on the ability of poor people to earn incomes.

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Climate change, economic production, inequality, and poverty

This paper seeks to fill the gap with regard to the quantification of the impact of climate change on future levels of poverty across different income thresholds and scenarios

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

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