Coping capacity, cultural impacts, loss absorption, loss acceptance, loss of livelihood, psychological impacts, psychological support, social vulnerability.
This study quantifies the effects of hurricane windstorms on economic activity using nightlight as a proxy at the highest spatial resolution data available and accordingly, the broader socioeconomic and environmental effects of this protection.
Calgary and many other cities, including Montréal, Vancouver, Myrtle Beach and Houston, continue to build houses in areas that hydrologists and engineers have designated as being high-risk for flooding.
This article examines how social capital was autonomously cultivated and utilised by the Cyclone Idai disaster survivors in Eastern Chimanimani, Zimbabwe to face the fresh socio-economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With each climate-related disaster, communities most at risk are being pushed into permanent displacement and homelessness, or deeper into poverty. But much could be prevented with investments in preparedness and protecting vulnerable communities.
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
