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. 

Latest Social impacts & resilience additions in the Knowledge Base

Cover and source: United Nations Development Programme
This report attempts to capture the status of the human security situation in its seven dimensions, in the two municipalities of Western Nepal – Barekot Rurual Municipality and Nalgad Municpality.
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The 4th edition of ARMOR underlines the importance of strengthening sustainable disaster resilience in Southeast Asia, and offers suggestions and improvements that can be made to existing approaches and initiatives.
Women in Rwanda growing coffee to support themselves.
Following an open call for locally-led adaptation initiatives last year, CDKN selected five K2A projects from an extremely competitive pool of over 1000 applicants. The selected K2A projects are in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique and South Sudan.
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Cattle grazing
Research highlights the need for sustained civil engagement and legislative interventions on two key issues: 1) the nuances of animal rescue and welfare; and 2) the strained resiliency of agricultural communities.
Conversation Media Group, the
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This article draws on a natural experiment to examine the causal link between flooding experiences, pro-environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior using national survey data collected from 2058 individuals aged 16-29 years across Luxembourg.
From Appalachia to the Bayou to the desert Southwest, here's how culture can teach us about adapting to a warmer world.
Grist Magazine
A farmer takes a break in the midday heat
As climate change threatens to bring more extreme heat and adverse impacts for these workers, a new study published today in the journal One Earth examines the scale of this threat and explores pathways to boost workers’ resiliency to warming.
Nature Conservancy, the
Terry Kinyua
A collaborative effort supported by the Mastercard Foundation has led to the development and implementation of the IIA-Kenya MSME Resilience Programme, aimed at empowering Kenyan MSMEs to navigate through crises and emerge stronger than before.

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