Inclusion

While Miami Beach pours money into adaptation, residents in other parts of the county are waiting for the help they need. The city government has recently made an effort to include low-income neighborhoods in planning and discussion around climate change. But according to some activists in the county, more needs to be done, and it needs to be done quickly.

Schools in flood-prone Pakistan are proving particularly vulnerable to worsening extreme weather and shifting rainfall patterns linked to climate change. About 10,000 schools were damaged or destroyed in mega-floods in 2010, and 10,000 more by 2015. Efforts to cut child deaths include new construction standards for schools, evacuation drills and climate risk curriculum.

The system for allocating taxpayers’ money to flood defence schemes favours protecting wealthy families and those in the south-east, analysis suggests. The government has said it applies a strict economic formula to deciding where funding should be spent, but an investigation by the Press Association reveals the methods to determine where funding goes suggest otherwise.

The 2016 Understanding Risk Forum (UR2016) is the fourth biennial conference of the UR Community. Understanding Risk is a global community of experts and practitioners in the field of disaster risk identification - including risk assessment and risk

At 10:20 a.m. on Thursday, more than 10 million Californians will be asked to drop to the floor, crawl under a table and hold on to one of the legs. It’s part of the Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill. But for foreign-born Latinos, their first instinct might be to flee the building, rather than duck, cover and hold — and that could put them in more danger.

The recent passage of Hurricane Matthew in the Caribbean, which affected millions of people in Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and the US, reminds us once again of the relentless forces of nature. In addition to a rising death toll, there are 750,000 Haitians in need of immediate assistance. Are we doing enough to create resilience?

Over a year after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, the process of recovery is slow moving. The ongoing public discourse on how to recover from the earthquake has emphasised the need to ‘build back better’ and to build ‘resilience’ - but it is important to understand what resilience actually means and how both concepts are different but complementary to each other.

This note highlights the impact of floods on the urban poor. Ninety percent of new urban residents are in Africa and Asia, which have some of the poorest countries in the world. Many new urban residents end up in informal settlements, often in locations