Social impacts and social resilience

This booklet of practical information shares knowledge accumulated through the project "NGO Training for Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia" aimed at strengthening the capacities of the members of the Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), an

The strategy includes developing climate resilience through improved understanding of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure, a reduction in the number of people at high risk of landslides in St. Lucia, improved management of protected areas, and the establishment of financing mechanisms for critical ecosystems...

This paper approaches the challenges of climate change from the point of view of its impact on hunger and nutrition. It presents the sophisticated early warning and vulnerability analysis tools that WFP uses and shares to predict and map the risk of

New York City Panel on Climate Change 2010 report, volume 1196:

This volume is a study on climate change and its impact, as well as a legal, insurance, and risk management expertise. It presents the report of the New York City Panel on Climate Change

This information paper gives a brief description of ongoing USAID/OFDA disaster risk reduction (DRR) programmes active in fiscal year 2009, grouped according to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) priority that the respective programme promotes. It

EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, vol. 91, doi:10.1029/2010EO190001:

This study analysed the volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens on 18 May 1980, and revolutionized the way scientists approach the field of volcanology. It states that lives

2010-2015 world disaster reduction campaign:

This information kit outlines the characteristics of a disaster resilient city and identifies what constitutes urban risk. It provides important facts and figures about disaster risk and describes the Making

Responding to the local challenges of global climate change in the 21st Century, InterSecTions no. 7/2009:

This publication looks at the social impacts of global climate change and examines how people living in the low elevation coastal zones are