Social impacts and social resilience

In a first of a three-part series, International Research Institute for Climate and Society's (IRI) director-general makes the case for climate-risk management as an approach for dealing with droughts, floods, epidemics and other problems that plague society and hinder development...

Dozens of cities have joined the 'Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready' campaign, which calls on leaders and local governments to commit to a 10-point checklist to boost their resilience against natural hazards...

This report shows how much progress has been made on concrete strategies and actions to meet the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It calls for investments in disaster risk reduction as provider of long-term benefits from reduced future losses

To further the reach of community-level disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change, the Government of Norway has committed USD 16 million to support Bangladesh in strengthening its disaster management system...

A paper published in Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Social Protection, pp 201-217:

By exploring the relationship between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) researchers

This document presents five case studies from India providing insights and lessons learned on possible responses to climate change in semi-arid rural areas in the states of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. It draws experience from the Vulnerability

This report examines changes in river flows from 2010 to 2030 and implications for: (i) the future of glaciers; (ii) rainfall; (iii) growing demand; (iv) shifting sectors; (v) pollution and inefficiency; (vi) desertification; (vii) loss of biodiversity;

The National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) is working on improving its risk reduction mechanism through the development of the country's Strategic National Action Plan (SNAP) for disaster risk reduction within the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)...