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Displaying 15 of about 115 resultsThis guide provides information on preparing an emergency plan and kit for people with disabilities/special needs and for caregivers. The publication acknowledges that while disasters and emergencies affect everyone, their impact on people with disabilities/special needs is often compounded by factors such as reliance on electrical power, elevators, acc…
This study discusses the potential role that Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) can play in disaster risk reduction activities and in mapping the disaster-related vulnerabilities of clients in order to assess opportunities for more effective disaster preparedness.
MFIs have the potential to play a significant role in risk reduction.…
The objective of this conceptual and methodological paper is to flag different possible choices that can be made to study the relationship between migration and adaptation. The authors call for a reconceptualization of the migration–adaptation nexus and a deeper understanding of how migration affects adaptive capacities. Research should analyse mig…
Historical losses due to tropical cyclones have been found to increase less than linearly with a nation's affected gross domestic product (GDP). This document demonstrates that for the United States this scaling is caused by a sub-linear increase with affected population while relative losses scale super-linearly with per capita income. The finding is r…
The Global Climate Risk Index 2017 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). This year’s 12th edition of the analysis reconfirms that, according to the Climate Risk Index, less developed countries are generally more affected than industrialised countrie…
This case study examines a Habitat for Humanity India (HFHI) pilot phase for a disaster insurance product to complement and enhance social security measures within its beneficiary communities. The goal of this comprehensive insurance policy is to provide asset and property coverage against a wide range of natural and m…
This study examines the institutional networks required to link processes of community-level deliberation to city and national level processes of decision-making and implementation, in the context of urban governance, community development and climate change.
In 2010, the Philippine government introduced a resettlement programme to remove all informal…
IDS Working Paper Volume 2016 No. 465:
This paper examines the linkages between social protection and resilience to climate change among poor rural households through a case study of the conditional cash transfer programme "Oportunidades" in two rural communities in Yucatan, Mexico, a region highly exposed to hurricanes and droughts. Qualitative and qu…
This research explores the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Darwin when a cyclone, bushfire or severe weather event strikes and in its aftermath, and identifies determinants of vulnerability from the perspective of these communities. Initial consultations were carried out with Indigenous people living in each of the seven…
The Rockefeller Foundation's Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network initiative is a collective experiment with a range of activities that will together improve the ability of the cities to withstand, prepare for, and recover from the projected impacts of climate change.
The interventions in the city of Indore and Surat include:
raising aware…
This publication stresses the importance of involving migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, and the organisations that represent them, in counter-disaster programming in Europe. The recommendations seek to improve communication, foster mutual understanding, build trust as well as recognise and utilise migrants' skills and coping capacities.
The a…
The aim of this assessment report is twofold, such that it: (a) maps the migration– environment nexus in Kenya by looking at human mobility due to environmental change; and (b) examines existing policy and legal frameworks and offers guidance in mainstreaming migration in Kenya’s national planning of different sectors and at different levels. One o…
This publication explores the contributions of science and technology in Asia. The first part evaluates the advancement of the science and technology in disaster risk reduction in 11 countries.
The second part of the report features 28 case studies and good practices on applying science and technology in different field of disaster risk reduction…
PLOS Currents Disasters 2016, Edition 1, doi: 10.1371/currents.dis.d073fbece328e4c39087bc086d694b5c:
This analysis provides an unprecedented level of information about human movement after a natural disaster, provided within a very short timeframe after the earthquake occurred. The patterns revealed using the method proposed in this paper are almost imp…
These guidelines have been developed for disaster risk management specialists, programme managers and technical staff to facilitate the selection of the most vulnerable communities in a country. The methodology described ensures a transparent, consistent and documented process that reduces external influences and power dynamics in the decision-making th…