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Community-based DRR

This approach engages the local community, including the most vulnerable, in managing local disaster risk with community specific risk reduction measures while recognizing existing capacities and coping mechanisms. This includes community assessments of hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities, and their involvement in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of local action for disaster risk reduction. Community-based DRR is a key disaster risk management approach.

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Enhancing community flood adaptation by leveraging interdependencies between resilience capitals: A global empirical analysis thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study contributes to the development of integrated, systems-based adaptation strategies by examining how interactions among capitals shape resilience outcomes.

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (Springer)
Addressing vulnerability to urban heat stress through community engagement: a systematic scoping review
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This systematic scoping review defines a theoretical framework (considering vulnerability factors, adaptation options, engagement levels and community stances) to examine challenges in addressing heat stress through community engagement.

WIREs Climate Change
Assessing the public value of societal resilience to disruption thumbnail
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This report explains the investments that individuals, communities, Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector organisations, local/central government, and businesses make in societal resilience.

National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]
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Waikōloa Village has a higher risk of wildfire than Lahaina and conditions that would challenge residents' escape in case of emergency

Hawaiʻi Community Journal
Articulations and enactments of climate adaptation citizenship: how citizens in small remote communities in the Nordics engage with climate change-related hazards thumbnail
Documents and publications

This paper is about how citizens in small, remote Nordic communities engage with climate adaptation through awareness, everyday practices, and local political action.

Environmental Politics (Taylor & Francis)
Disaster preparedness among residents of flood-prone areas in sub-saharan africa: a systematic review thumbnail
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This systematic review reveals low levels of flood preparedness among residents in flood-prone areas, identifying key socioeconomic determinants and prevalent strategies, underscoring the need for targeted interventions to enhance community resilience.

Discover Public Health (Springer)
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In the dry-season heat of northern Thailand, Hmong villagers zip through forested slopes, blasting tinder with leaf blowers and cutting through brush with machetes, while others scan for smoke on live feeds from their phones.

France 24
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Higher resolution climate data is now part of the Met Office Local Authority Climate Service (LACS) following a notable update in response to user feedback.

Met Office
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