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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

Research briefs

Take cover! Survey shows tornado warnings widely misunderstood

In her most recent study, Armstrong found that roughly 50% of those surveyed in the mid-south could not accurately define a tornado warning.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Red alert: How we can help the millions of workers who toil in searing heat

By 2050, climate-induced heat stress could force significant changes in job structures and labor demand, highlighting a pressing need for adaptive policies.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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How to confront gender-based violence in a warming world

Rising temperatures have an impact on mental health and human behavior, and evidence has shown that warmer temperatures correlate with a 4% increase in interpersonal violence and a 14% rise in intergroup conflicts globally.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
A crowd of women gather for a border ceremony in Lahore, Pakistan
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Safeguarding women’s health in the face of rising temperatures

Extreme heat has disparate impacts on women's health and broader socio-economic consequences. There is an urgent need for gender-responsive adaptation strategies.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Research briefs

Power outages linked to heat and storms are rising, and low-income communities are most at risk, as a new NYC study shows

In a new study, data from New York City and the surrounding area was analyzed to understand how severe weather drives power outages and who is most at risk, particularly in urban areas.
Conversation Media Group, the
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May Day 2024: Workers on a warming planet deserve stronger labour protections

From fields to fryers, a warming planet is intensifying occupational health and safety threats to low-wage workers across the food chain.
Conversation Media Group, the
A women farmer in Zimbabwe walking along her field checking the crops
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El Niño and La Niña: four crucial steps to build climate resilience

At UNGA-ECOSOC event, FAO Deputy Director-General emphasizes the key role of effective anticipatory action in protecting and equipping communities ahead of shocks.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
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Documents and publications

Empty pantries: The death of survival myths among typhoon Haiyan survivors in resettlement sites during COVID-19

This paper looks at the role social capital has played in the survival of an understudied and vulnerable group in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic - the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Typhoon Yolanda).

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