Social impacts and social resilience

Severe drought, exacerbated by poverty and conflict, hit at least four countries in 2011: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Familiar laments emerged about the failure to heed warnings issued months earlier and learn from previous famines by building resilience to inevitable weather shocks...

'I urge the government to seriously revisit its spending policy vis-à-vis the DRRM law because while disasters are becoming worse and deadlier, our actions are still inconsistent with our goals of a disaster-resilient nation', says Legarda, calling for flood control, hazard identification, mapping and assessment, and more...

Due to the impacts of climate change, several cities have adopted adaptive measures in order to face extreme weather events: 'In Seoul, for instance, they have removed a highway and restored an ancient river running through the city.' See the reports of 23 countries...

A forum is getting under way involving 10-20 Palestinian municipalities around 'Is Your City Prepared?', part of the Urban Planning and Disaster Risk Reduction Center participation in the Making Cities Resilient campaign, working with local institutions including the civil defense, the Red Crescent, the National Agency for Disaster Risk Mitigation and the Engineering Association in coordination with the UNISDR....

UNISDR has organized an exchange visit between the Philippines and Japan, two of the countries worst-affected this year by a series of disasters ranging from a major earthquake which triggered a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in Japan, and back-to-back typhoons in the case of the Philippines...

This document presents the Malaysian economy and states that natural hazards must be managed to mitigate social and economic consequences, as Malaysian cities are especially vulnerable to floods and landslides. This reports urges cities to have adequate

Benjamin K. Sovacool, an associate professor at Vermont Law School, states in the Huffington Post that decisions made today on adaptation may determine how vulnerable we are to future climate-induced events...

'La sécurité civile et la sécurité alimentaire sont en jeu, et nous préparons un plan climatique, que nous déposerons au sommet Rio +20, en juin 2012' a déclaré à l'AFP Jacky Bryant, le ministre de l'Environnement de la Polynésie française...