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Displaying 52 of about 52 results… heavily on external resource suppliers (e.g. electricity, heat, raw materials). 10 Naturally, manufacturing activities … such as apparel, are particularly exposed to pandemics, heat stress, floods and other risks affecting the workforce. …
… disease outbreaks had not been formalized. This prompted a wave of rapidly designed and implemented programs, such as …
Micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are one of the most important, yet vulnerable, drivers of development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This stems from the fact that, while MSMEs are known to support over 50% of all livelihoods on the continent (both formal and informal) these firms often face a plethora of heterogenous risks that regularl…
… weather effects such as floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves. The effects of greenhouse gases on the global … 38% rainstorms, flash floods, and landslides; and 10% heat waves, frosts, and wildfires. Meteorological disasters …
… characterised by “more poverty, air pollution, extreme heat and flood damage, and less access to health care and …
… region struggled hard to manage the effect of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the recurrent monsoon rains …
… quality (e.g. air, noise, access to green and blue, heat islands) y Emergency, disaster and risk management data, …