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Displaying 60 of about 123 resultsThis study aimed to explore challenges for nature-based solutions (NbS) governance by analyzing the development and implementation of NbS in Asia. NbS consist of a range of measures that address various societal challenges, including climate change, natural disasters, and water security, by combining human well-being and biodiversity benefits. Although…
This report seeks to analyse the strengths and gaps of the legal and policy frameworks related to disaster recovery in The Bahamas, particularly within the context of the ongoing recovery efforts from Hurricane Dorian, as well as examining the provisions of the new Disaster Risk Management Act, 2022. Like other Caribbean countries, The Bahamas had…
This note assesses the effects of the 2022 floods on human capital in Pakistan. It focuses on the results of a Pakistan-wide phone survey that gathered information on the experiences of approximately 4,000 families with children ages 3 to 17.
The survey was originally designed to track children’s return to school after school closures due to the COVID-…
This note documents good practices to prevent, mitigate, and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in post-disaster contexts, utilizing the World Bank-financed Central Sulawesi Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project (CSRRP) as a case study. Women, girls, boys, and men face different levels of exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards, driven by…
This report is part of a global research project on ‘Law and Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction’ conducted by IFRC Disaster Law. Following the publication in 2020 of a Literature Review on Law and Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction, IFRC Disaster Law is conducting country-level mappings on law and disaster recovery across the globe, having selected…
This paper compares economic recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic with other types of disasters, at the scale of businesses. As countries around the world struggle to emerge from the pandemic, studies of business impact and recovery have proliferated; however, pandemic research is often undertaken without the benefit of insights from long-standing research…
The purpose of this document is to highlight design considerations for conducting post-fire reconnaissance surveys to assess fire severity, habitat condition and threats, as well as the status of priority threatened species and ecological communities listed by the federal Government as most vulnerable to the 2019-20 wildfires. The document consists of f…
After almost three decades of steady economic growth, Australia has been hit by a sudden series of exogenous shocks that tested our national resilience.
The 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, COVID-19 pandemic and forecast recession each present wicked policy challenges. They are riddled with complexity and conflicting aims and no clear stopping point.
T…
Fire occurs naturally in many ecosystems and is predicted to increase in frequency and severity with climate change. The 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season was extreme, unprecedented in scale and severity, burning almost 19 million ha. This included half of the Gondwanan rainforests in eastern Australia, an ecosystem with no documented record of fire.…
The recent bushfires in Australia have attracted worldwide attention. With over 12m hectares burnt so far – roughly the size of England – the bushfires are truly a disaster of global proportions. There has been tragic loss of human lives, people severely injured, livestock killed, homes, buildings and infrastructure destroyed, while the impacts on fores…
Australia’s 2019–2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires burnt more than 8 million hectares of vegetation across the south-east of the continent, an event unprecedented in the last 200 years. Here we report the impacts of these fires on vascular plant species and communities. Using a map of the fires generated from remotely sensed hotspot data we show that, acros…
The catastrophic eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 destroyed the forests that covered the peak and impacted the surrounding habitat over a broad area of central Luzon. Information on the mammal fauna of Mt. Pinatubo prior to the eruption is limited but documents a variety of native mammals. In 2011 and 2012, we surveyed mammals at localities along an ele…
Australia’s unprecedented 2019 – 2020 bushfire season devastated the nation. Across the country, approximately 47 million acres were burned, with 31 million acres primarily in forest and bushland habitats. Tragically, 34 lives were lost and close to 2,700 homes were destroyed.
In January we estimated that 1.25 billion animals may have been killed by th…
This report identifies eleven options that could improve the United States of America's federal approach to disaster recovery. It explains how these options could be implemented and the strengths and limitations of each. The federal approach to disaster recovery is fragmented across more than 30 federal entitities. This approach is the produce of over 4…
This paper discusses, in the form of a case study, the resettlement process of Aranayake that took place in 2016. In Aranayake, 512 families have resettled at ten relocation sites or at their own residences. This study explores the strengths and weaknesses of this resettlement process via interviews of government officials, selected families, and other…