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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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Documents and publications

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.
Update

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
Update

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
Update

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)
Research briefs

How ghost streams and redlining’s legacy lead to unfairness in flood risk, in Detroit and elsewhere

As the planet warms, severe rains – and the flooding that follows – may become even more intense and frequent in cities like Detroit that have aging and undersized stormwater infrastructure.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications

Enhancing human security through local climate actions

This report attempts to capture the status of the human security situation in its seven dimensions, in the two municipalities of Western Nepal – Barekot Rurual Municipality and Nalgad Municpality.
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Documents and publications

ARMOR 4th Edition: Rendering 2023 Disastegram: Is ASEAN going to the right path for sustainable resilience

The 4th edition of ARMOR underlines the importance of strengthening sustainable disaster resilience in Southeast Asia, and offers suggestions and improvements that can be made to existing approaches and initiatives.
Women in Rwanda growing coffee to support themselves.
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Five African resilience projects have been chosen to receive CDKN financing

Following an open call for locally-led adaptation initiatives last year, CDKN selected five K2A projects from an extremely competitive pool of over 1000 applicants. The selected K2A projects are in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique and South Sudan.
Climate and Development Knowledge Network

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