Social impacts and social resilience

This document addresses disasters as part of the common risk factors which threaten women’s safety, specifically in urban environment, and the areas of women’s capacity, well-being and citizenship to be improved. It shares and promotes successful

This yearbook includes data, charts and a textual overview of over 200 indicators, as well as such cross-cutting issues as poverty and gender. Chapter 30 specifically addresses natural disasters and their huge economic and social costs in Asia and the

This brochure explains how to encourage and support mitigation efforts. It describes FEMA's activities in reducing the impact of disasters, and calls for: (i) collaboration between communities, business, and government; (ii) investment in creating

Sixth Report of Session 2009–10. Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence.

This report states that adapting to climate change needs to become as much of a priority, in the United Kingdom, as cutting emissions. The report concludes

This document focuses on the joint United Nations-European Union support to countries recovering from natural disasters or conflict, which aims to rebuild not only lives and livelihoods, but also people’s hopes and aspirations for a better future. It

This report develops the potential links between climate change, its socio-economic impacts and the likely security consequences, showing how the UK and other Western countries will come under increasing internal pressure from their own populations due to

This report uses the framework of 'The Urban Divide' to analyse the complex social, political, economic and cultural dynamics of urban environments. It adresses poverty and deprivation, which expose low-income urban dwellers to higher risks and make them