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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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Exploring the determinants of disaster and climate resilience building in Zimbabwe’s rural communities

The study’s main thrust is to establish the determinants of resilience building in Zimbabwe’s rural communities.
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Integrating social vulnerability into high-resolution global flood risk mapping

The study aims to identify and characterize 'hotspots' of flood risk, accounting for spatial variation in social vulnerability, to provide improved insights into the geography of risk and enhance disaster risk planning and response efforts.
A man wades through the flood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Keeping it fair: How to account for inequity in climate and disaster risk analyses

Incorporating social inequalities into climate risk analyses offers a more just consideration of the vulnerabilities of different communities.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Understanding the sustainable development of community (social) disaster resilience in Serbia: Demographic and socio-economic impacts

This paper presents the results of quantitative research examining the impacts of demographic and socioeconomic factors on the sustainable development of community disaster resilience.
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Extreme weather disruptions and emergency preparedness among older adults in Ohio: An eight-county assessment

This article provides an overview of climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and county-level characteristics, focusing on older adults living in Central Ohio.
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ASID Impact of design brief: Climate, building resiliency, and human health

This brief examines the current state of the environment from a chemical landscape perspective and proposes how its three leading topics— climate, building resiliency and human health— can be better considered in an evolving design practice.
Glass building and tree cover
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Impacts of extreme weather on interior design examined in new research

ASID in collaboration with the Chemical Insights Research Institute (CIRI) of UL Research Institutes, unveiled new research today on the effects of extreme weather and climate events on the built environment and its occupants.
American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)
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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.

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