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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

People walking in front of small colorful shops in Mombasa, Kenya
Blog
Terry Kinyua

Empowering Kenya's entrepreneurs: resilience lessons from the pandemic

A collaborative effort supported by the Mastercard Foundation has led to the development and implementation of the IIA-Kenya MSME Resilience Programme, aimed at empowering Kenyan MSMEs to navigate through crises and emerge stronger than before.
Update

The Texas panhandle wildfires and four keys for equitable recovery

Urban Institute analyzed data from the US Census Bureau and other sources and reflected on evidence from past disasters and identified four key issues that may need to be addressed as part of an equitable recovery.
Urban Institute
Update

Estimated 2.5 million people displaced by tornadoes, wildfires and other disasters in 2023 tell a story of recovery in America and who is vulnerable

Overall, the Census Bureau estimates that nearly 2.5 million Americans had to leave their homes because of disasters in 2023, whether for a short period or much longer.
Conversation Media Group, the
Research briefs

Wildfires appear to increase mental health burden

A study of drug prescriptions before and after major blazes in California indicates that fires affect people's medication needs.
University of Washington
Research briefs

Wildfire smoke disproportionately affects California's Indigenous communities, new research shows

Using a new method to study wildfire-related particulate matter and air quality, researchers propose a way to study the long-term health effects of what are often considered short-term hazards.
University of California, Berkeley
Update

Why Bangladesh is running out of options in the face of extreme weather

To help her community become more climate resilient, Ali, 36, who is now settled in Barishal, joined the Hatkhola Squad, a female-led disaster-response team, set up by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society.
Guardian, the (UK)
A villager distributes water to be used by households during a drought in northern Kenya
Update

Why irrigation needs to think smaller to save Kenyan pastoralism

‘As policymakers consider irrigation investments in the drylands, the past disappointing experiences of large-scale schemes must be taken into account.’
The New Humanitarian
Update

Unpacking 2023, the warmest year on record

2023 was the warmest year on record. The latest Copernicus Climate Change Service highlights that February 2023 to January 2024 was the first time that we experienced 12 consecutive months of temperatures 1.5-degree hotter than the pre-industrial era.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)

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