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Displaying 15 of about 662 resultsResilience is a process in which communities collectively respond to significant events, using various coping and adaptive capacities. This scenario has mobilized reflections and strategies on the need to build resilient and regenerative cities with the capacity to recover from disasters and sustainably adapt to changes. The ecosystemic view of resilien…
This report presents the hazards, exposures, and vulnerabilities that the ASEAN region is experiencing, and highlight strategies, including some related to climate change adaptation, to reduce disaster risk and increase resilience at the sub-national and national levels as well as in transboundary contexts. Climate change is an existential threat t…
This study investigates the social capital features of Etanwala and Mandaramnuwara villages in Sri Lanka since the communities residing in these villages have effectively adapted to landslide disasters. Landslide disasters occur suddenly, causing multiple socio-economic burdens on developing countries. Preserving and enhancing adapting capacity of…
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and rainfall shocks are often cited as the most important risk factor faced by households in rural, less developed and rain-fed agricultural settings. Now, research by University of Massachusetts Amherst economist Marta Vicarelli finds that such weather shocks experienced during the early stages of life have…
This report summarizes the food security and agriculture situation in the Philippines as well as the World Food Programme's (WFP) operation in the country in 2021. A middle-income country, the Philippines is the second fastest growing economy in Asia but has struggled to transpose these improvements into tangible human development gains. Poverty is at 1…
Young people from across the Americas and the Caribbean have asked for a greater role in preparing and implementing policies to reduce disaster risk in one of the most hazard-prone regions of the world.
The Youth Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction - The Americas and the Caribbean was an opportunity for some of the region’s 106 million young people to sh…
This paper provides an understanding of what drives migration, the patterns associated with it, its issues and consequences, and provide broader policy recommendations - to use social protection programme to provide safety net to migrants, both at source for family members staying back and at destination.
There are several aspects of climate-induced sh…
This study investigates the role of local institutions (formal, informal, and quasi-formal) in creating learning arenas and translating social learning into collective action in flash flood-prone Sunamganj communities in Bangladesh. Despite widespread recognition that social learning can potentially contribute toward enhancing community resilience…
13 October is International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. This year the theme is Only Together. The focus is on enhancing international cooperation to developing countries. This gives us a perfect opportunity to remind you of the value of working together to deliver flood resilience investments.
Flood resilience investments save lives and livelihood…
Overview of special issue
As global warming is unavoidable, adaptation measures (either autonomous, planned, or natural) are necessary to minimize the negative impact of climate change and increase the climate resilience of the society at the local, regional, and global levels. Economic assessment of adaptation measures has been widely used to provide…
On November 9, during the Science and Innovation day at COP26, the GSMA announced the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation. This new Fund will help accelerate the testing, adoption and scalability of digital innovations that enable the world’s most vulnerable populations to adapt, anticipate and absorb the n…
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This three days virtual/online training workshop is to assist city and local governments in building greater resilience to climate and disaster risks through integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction into wider city development plans and strategies.
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We are pleased to announce the first Masterclass on Stress Testing for Building Infrastructure Resilience, to be held online from 9am to 4pm GMT on the 10th of December 2021. The masterclass will be organised jointly by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), University College London’s Institute for Risk and Disaster Re…
New 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…
Predictive models have great potential for forecasting population displacements from climatic and other disasters. But disaster displacement risk assessment approaches often use probabilistic models and big data analysis to make global-level predictions, which have limited utility for planning and delivering local interventions that address vulnera…