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The idea sprouted, and Efseaff and other members of the community now hope to build a ribbon of public parkland devoid of homes that would encircle and protect Paradise, its land managed to reduce the risk of fire. Known as a "wildfire-risk reduction buffer", this landscape would be managed so the trees are far apart, with less brush in the under…
Residential overcrowding, low educational attainment and low income had a crucial impact on how hard the pandemic hit various groups in the community, a study from the University of Gothenburg shows. The research is based on national register data covering Sweden’s entire population.
For the present study, Statistics Sweden (SCB) and the Public Health…
Ten years ago, Hurricane Sandy crashed into the nation's largest city and forever changed the way many New Yorkers see the future. But after billions of dollars spent on a recovery process that is now considered officially complete, many households and business still struggle to find a new normal, to say nothing of actually recovering.
As for resilienc…
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Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and…
The COP27 Africa Regional Resilience Hub welcomes all those involved in adaptation and resilience in Africa to submit session proposals for virtual events that share key African priorities, solutions, challenges and opportunities, in order to bring these regional messages to COP27. The Africa Hub, led by CDKN and SouthSouthNorth, will deliver a p…
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of disasters, but the ability to cope varies widely across the globe. This column examines how city death tolls and economic activity are affected by flooding. Richer places with the resources and infrastructure to cope with disasters tend to be more resilient. Compared to cities in low-incom…
This study aims to present a globally comprehensive, fine-resolution, and longitudinal estimate of urban population exposure to extreme heat––referred to henceforth as exposure––for 13,115 urban settlements from 1983 to 2016. To accomplish this, the study harmonizes global, fine-grained (0.05° spatial resolution) Tmax estimates with global urb…
During heat waves, the highest temperatures are often found in urbanized areas. By 2070, 3.5 billion people will be heavily affected by heat, 1.6 billion of whom will live in urban areas (Chi Xu et al. 2020). Rising temperatures can negatively impact vulnerable people, workers, infrastructure and even GDP.
As the world warms, there is an urge…
This paper develops a community resilience index for Kerala’s urban flood-prone areas (CRIF) through a rigorous bottom-up approach. Communities are ever-evolving, cities are constantly expanding, and the threat of natural hazards has escalated like never before. Cities can develop and prosper only if their society is resilient to external shocks. Measur…
On Monday and Tuesday, 18 & 19 July 2022, an exceptional heatwave affected large parts of the UK. It was the first time that temperatures of 40°C and above have been forecast in the UK.
On Tuesday, 40.3°C was reached in Coningsby in Lincolnshire, breaking the previous maximum temperature record of 38.7°C set in 2019. Local records have been broken…
Amidst a summer marked by extreme heat and drought, the Polish city welcomed tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the latest example of leadership in the face of multiple man-made and natural hazards.
September 15, 2022, ATHENS, Greece – the Polish city of Wroclaw has been internationally recognized for its commitment to reduce the disaster risk…
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Sitang said existing agencies are still dealing with the risks and problems of flooding in the same old way. Resources are mobilized mainly as temporary “fixes” for recurring problems or as knee-jerk responses to flooding. Thailand’s flood defenses lack long-term measures.
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Sitang said NWC was initially established to deal with heavy flood…
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It is often said that “…a city is a system of systems”, but the aging infrastructure in these systems is a vulnerability exacerbated by natural hazards and climate variability. The 2018 National Climate Assessment highlighted that current water management and planning principles leave communities exposed t…
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The session Digital Resilience: Technology and tools for local disaster risk reduction is co-organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (U…
To build a sea wall, you first have to build community trust.
Robert Moses, the public official responsible for transforming much of New York City’s landscape in the 20th century, built East River Park in the 1930s. It’s a ramshackle stretch of land that sits on the other side of a six-lane highway from four mammoth public housing complexes. Until rece…