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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. 

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The influence of the 2021 European flooding on pro-environmental attitudes and partial behavior transition

This article draws on a natural experiment to examine the causal link between flooding experiences, pro-environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior using national survey data collected from 2058 individuals aged 16-29 years across Luxembourg.
Update

As climate change fractures communities, folklorists help stitch them back together

From Appalachia to the Bayou to the desert Southwest, here's how culture can teach us about adapting to a warmer world.
Grist Magazine
A farmer takes a break in the midday heat
Research briefs

Scientists highlight growing risks from humid heat to ~1 billion outdoor workers in the tropics

As climate change threatens to bring more extreme heat and adverse impacts for these workers, a new study published today in the journal One Earth examines the scale of this threat and explores pathways to boost workers’ resiliency to warming.
Nature Conservancy, the
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

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