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Social impacts and social resilience

The ability of a community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management. 

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‘It’s going to be extremely hot’: workers imperiled as sweltering World Cup temperatures are forecast

It could top 90F in several cities hosting World Cup games – and workers could pay the price with their health.

Guardian, the (UK)
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Extreme heat: a new red card for sports?

Extreme heat is reshaping sports and sport governance faster than many events are ready for. In this article, experts Ollie Jay, Lachlan McIver, Alejandro Saez Reale and Marc Gordon set out what’s at stake.

Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN)
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6 ways this year’s “Super El Niño” could affect climate, humans, and marine creatures

NOAA defines a “very strong” El Niño as when the Pacific’s surface waters are more than 2°C warmer than average. What does this mean for climate, for humans, and marine species?

Eos - AGU
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Principles and processes for prioritising and influencing urban resilience investment

This guide outlines a set of principles and processes for resilience investment in Australia aimed at fostering effective, sustainable, and long-term resilience-building initiatives.

Natural Hazards Research Australia
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Shaking urban crime: Earthquakes, stress and crime in neighbourhoods

This study analyses the impact of the earthquakes that occurred on the 7 and 19 September 2017, with magnitudes of 8.2 and 7.1 respectively, on crime patterns in Mexico City.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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Slums are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis — and devising solutions

As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.

Knowable Magazine
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Documents and publications
Protecting jobs and employment during disasters: lessons from employment insurance system in Japan

This paper examines how Japan's employment insurance system has been adapted to protect jobs and support workers during natural disasters, drawing on the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake as a primary case study to extract lessons for other countries.

World Bank, the
Documents and publications
Uncertain Governance of a “Small Disaster”. Vulnerability to Recurrent Flooding in Lomé’s Second-hand Clothing Market (Togo)

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, this article offers a socio-environmental analysis of the recurrent floods affecting the urban markets in Lomé.

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