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This comprehensive analysis highlighted the economic impacts of the tourism shutdown from Australia's Black Summer Bushfires. This analysis could be used for budgeting and rebuilding in community-and-industry hotspots that may be far from the burn scar.
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Over the years, Vanuatu's local businesses have put together a wealth of experience, insights, and lessons learned with the support of the OCHA/UNDP Connecting Business initiative, in the hopes that other island nations can learn from them.
Connecting Business initiative
Yellow tsunami hazard zone warning sign in Bali, Indonesia
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In support of government efforts to raise awareness and prepare vulnerable communities for the possible occurrence of a tsunami, stakeholders such as business networks may organize activities to contribute to tsunami preparedness.
Connecting Business initiative
A group of five children from a village in Pakistan playing in the green field.
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The Asia-Pacific Consultation brought diverse business networks together to explore how the private sector can support resilience of children and their families
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
Tourists traverse the side of a road eroded by floods in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand
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Over the decades, New Zealand has centralised its food system and increased the risk that a single regional event could reverberate nationally. But it’s not too late to diversify and increase resilience across our food supply system.
Conversation Media Group, the
Research briefs
New research found that shortening supply chains will be vital to make regions more resilient to these shocks – as well as drawing on community efforts such as farmers’ markets.
Conversation Media Group, the
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In the Solomon Islands, the approach combined short-term actions with low potential for future regret with long-term options for future climate conditions.
Development Asia
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Stock pickers in some of Asia’s key markets are being battered by a series of extreme weather events from heat waves to flooding, signaling the difficulties ahead as El Nino-related risks rise and climate change accelerates.
Times of India, the

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