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

This book demonstrates that the problem of how to distribute the cost of climate change in the rush to avoid, or reduce its repercussions, is fundamentally a problem of justice. It warns against passing the additional burden of climate change on the poor

This paper on climate change, food security and agricultural responses aims at delivering solutions to increase vulnerable farmers' resilience and to enable them to help combat climate change.

It considers vulnerable farmers and pastoralists – including

This publication provides a succinct account of the damage caused by the tsunami and its far-reaching impact on the lives and livelihoods of people in coastal Tamil Nadu. The book also documented the speedy decisions and the concerted rescue and relief measures taken by Government of Tamil Nadu and partners.
In this publication the Government of Tamil Nadu gives details regarding rehabilitation and the reconstruction programmes undertaken to revive coastal communities affected by the Tsunami in 2004.
El Salvador PDNA
This assessment provides estimates of the impacts of floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in El Salvador in 2009, and the estimated costs of reconstruction and recovery.

Analyzing 100 scientific and non-scientific documents, this book addresses all sides of the climate change debate, including carbon offsets, adaptation and prevention measures. It aims to facilitate helping find an agreement between the varied and

New horizons in environmental economics series:

This book uses the Ricardian method to examine the impact of climate change on agriculture. The book also quantifies how farmers adapt to climate. The findings suggest that agriculture in developing

New horizons in environmental economics series:

This book addresses the differential vulnerability of people and places, introducing concepts and methods for analysis and illustrating the impact on local, regional, national, and global scales.

The

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