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Displaying 15 of about 75 resultsNew research reveals the economic costs of behavioral responses to the pandemic in the U.S.
Throughout its unsteady course, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the behavior of businesses and households. Those behavioral changes, intensified by government actions like mandatory closures, have had a reverberating impact on the U.S. economy.
A new st…
JAMAICA – The Covid pandemic recovery provides a chance to implement green and sustainable economic and social policies, but it is far from certain that governments will seize the opportunity, a key international conference on disaster prevention was told.
Addressing the Vll Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction the in Americas and the Car…
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This webinar will examine how local, state, and federal governments can improve their collaboration with community-based organizations by drawing on the experiences of NGOs in Sitka, Alaska, that were instrumental in addressing emergent challenges in the local community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Representatives from local organizati…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident the systemic nature of risk, and highlighted the exposure of different systems to multiple hazards, as its unprecedented cascading effects have impacted all sectors and levels of our economies and societies. The Global Assessment Report 2019 (GAR) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction reflect the cer…
Boston, MA – Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The study is the first to quantify the…
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers. This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 41) examines Financial Technology (FinTech) and Digital Government as policy delivery tools during COVID-19 and how these tools may be…
This report discusses how changing climate dynamics have resulted in a confluence of disaster events to which Louisiana local government leaders and their emergency managers have never before had to respond simultaneously: a global pandemic and an “epidemic” of landfalling hurricanes during the 2020 season. Eight cones with challenging, unusual characte…
This rapid expert consultation reviews research on disaster vulnerability, homelessness, the COVID-19 pandemic, and intersecting hazards and disasters. Reducing disaster vulnerability for people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic requires adapting existing preparedness guidance to an evolving situation. It includes consider…
By Anne Wellenstein, Mirtha Escobar, Haris Sanahuja, and Cecilia Martínez Gómez
In a year already like none other, the 2020 hurricane season broke records with 30 named storms, surpassing the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which to date was the most active on record. The last two powerful tropical storms, Eta and Iota, also broke records.
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About 4.5 million fewer people would get sick and 54,000 fewer would die. Net cost savings of imposing three weeks of restrictions would be nearly $228 billion.
By Anna Scherbina
President Joe Biden commemorated the COVID-19 pandemic’s one-year anniversary by giving Americans an ambitious goal: Return to a semblance of normalcy by the Fourth of July.…
By Chelston Brathwait and Manuel Otero
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities of the economies of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Saint Lucia and other small, tourism-dependent Caribbean countries. These economies typically must contend with a limited availability of arable land, small and often scattered populations, fragile nat…
By Shawn Jeffords and Liam Casey
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Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark said the money can be used to acquire motel and hotel spaces to support physical distancing, hire more shelter staff, and buy more personal protective equipment.
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Last summer, the city and several agencies launched an “integrated-care” space where people can sleep, ea…
Indigenous people living in reserves not yet formally recognized by Brazil's government say they do not feel part of the country's indigenous "priority" vaccination push.
Indigenous leaders say communities are not getting priority vaccines
Doctors worry about excluding urban indigenous people from priority shots
Indigenous COVID-19 deaths significa…
This webinar will explore whether community resilience established during COVID-19 can be a new local and national resilience capability.
During COVID-19 communities around the globe have proved to be an invaluable resilience capability. We have witnessed community responses on a scale and diversity that was previously unthinkable with invisible acts o…
Humanity & Inclusión (HI) es una organización no gubernamental reconocida en más de 60 países por su trayectoria en la prevención de la discapacidad y en proporcionar apoyo y respaldo a las personas que se encuentran en dicha condición. HI vela por la autonomía y la integración de las personas con discapacidad promoviendo el mejoramiento de sus cond…