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Social impacts and social resilience

The ability of a community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management. 

Latest Social impacts & resilience additions in the Knowledge Base

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Understanding the sustainable development of community (social) disaster resilience in Serbia: Demographic and socio-economic impacts

This paper presents the results of quantitative research examining the impacts of demographic and socioeconomic factors on the sustainable development of community disaster resilience.
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Extreme weather disruptions and emergency preparedness among older adults in Ohio: An eight-county assessment

This article provides an overview of climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and county-level characteristics, focusing on older adults living in Central Ohio.
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ASID Impact of design brief: Climate, building resiliency, and human health

This brief examines the current state of the environment from a chemical landscape perspective and proposes how its three leading topics— climate, building resiliency and human health— can be better considered in an evolving design practice.
Glass building and tree cover
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Impacts of extreme weather on interior design examined in new research

ASID in collaboration with the Chemical Insights Research Institute (CIRI) of UL Research Institutes, unveiled new research today on the effects of extreme weather and climate events on the built environment and its occupants.
American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)
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Linking Nepal’s social protection programs with anticipatory action

This report and its brief present the learnings from a workshop organized in the context of a project aiming to link social protection programs (SPP) and anticipatory action (AA) in Nepal.
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Indians may already be experiencing temperatures close to limits of human survivability without even being aware

The basic criteria for IMD to declare a heatwave currently does not include take into account relative humidity, which is increasingly becoming a cause of humid heatwaves.
Down To Earth
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One in three Aussies fear extreme weather will force them to permanently leave their homes

New polling reveals Australians are increasingly concerned about being forced to relocate away from their homes and local communities, after extreme weather records were smashed in almost every state this summer.
Climate Council of Australia
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Resilience dividends: Breaking the nexus of poverty, inequality and climate risk

The ESCAP Asia-Pacific SDG Progress Report 2024 flagged the region’s regression on SDG 13, climate action. To reverse this trend, it is imperative that both mitigation and adaptation go hand in hand to accelerate climate action.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)

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