Inclusion

The WIN DRR Leadership Awards 2026 have been granted to Ms Utumapu of Samoa and Ms Hualde of the Philippines, in recognition of their contributions to strengthening inclusive disaster resilience and women’s leadership.

This study examines how Canadian emergency management organizations conceptualize and implement accessible risk communication

Inspired by the Menominee Tribe and Reservation in Wisconsin, the game tasks players with responding to floods, fires, droughts, and other extreme weather events.

This study shows global evidence on climate change’s impact on the health and wellbeing of indigenous children, highlighting five interconnected outcomes, calling for culturally grounded, geographically diverse, and child-centred climate-health research.

This editorial presents a special issue which addresses the complexity of disasters and their effects on older adults in different countries.

This report highlights extreme heat as an unequal urban disaster in India and Asia, detailing impacts on informal workers and urban poor, and calls for preventive, equity-focused responses like early warnings and participatory action plans.

Amid recurring landslides, a growing number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are being forced to adapt to increasingly limited camp space. Refugee management authorities warn that expansions of Rohingya camps will accelerate destruction of forests.

Environmental and disaster sociologist Maggie León-Corwin says there’s no standardized nationwide protocol for evacuating prisons and jails, and that governments should develop procedures and plans for keeping incarcerated people against extreme weather.

Indigenous communities are confronting mounting climate threats even as inadequate funding, scant legal recognition, and little support for self-governance limit their ability to respond.

This paper shows that heat impacts emerge from the interaction of biological differences and gendered social roles.

This inside story examines how VESA groups in Ethiopia’s South Omo strengthened climate resilience, women’s leadership, livelihood diversification, access to climate information and more inclusive household and community decision-making.

Study from Kerala shows how climate hazards can deepen inequalities for people with disabilities through inaccessible warnings, evacuation routes, shelters and services. Similar challenges in Sierra Leone highlight the need for inclusive climate action.

Bosai is a Japanese concept that encompasses all stages of disaster management. In a country where natural hazards are a frequent threat, understanding bosai is one of the most practical ways for individuals to protect themselves and those around them.

The survey of over 2000 respondents in Nepal and Bangladesh confirms extreme heat is a pervasive and escalating risk, significantly degrading public health, livelihoods and well-being and provides evidence for increasing investment in heat interventions

As heat waves intensify, advocates are pushing for protections for incarcerated people, who have little ability to escape dangerous temperatures.

Led in part by SFU, COPE project aims to help older adults prepare for and respond to extreme heat. The project is part of SFU Climate Innovation , a critical research priority that supports a community-centred response to the impacts of climate change.

This study evaluates whether the spatial accessibility of these facilities aligns with the distribution of older residents in core and non-core areas of Pudong New Area, Shanghai Municipality.

This study finds that age-specific heat tolerance thresholds dramatically increase estimates of future heat exposure, with older adults facing severe risks under global warming.

A mixed-methods study identifies five heat risk archetypes in Austria, revealing how social inequalities, ageing and climate change interact to shape vulnerability through 2080.

A Stanford Medicine-developed app shows that older adults’ geographic movements — also known as their life-space mobility — shrink in extreme heat that makes leaving the house difficult.

The study finds facilitators for inclusion of child health in adaptation policies by interviewing researchers and policymakers and provides a framework to guide efforts to include children’s health needs into responsive climate change adaptation policies.

Homes had burned. Photographs, memorabilia, and Salish baskets had disappeared with them. More than 30 band members had lost their homes, naspəpʕásəs Dan Wilson said, along with around 200 homes and other structures belonging to non-band members.

Scarred by the devastating 2025 floods, people with HIV are increasingly vulnerable

Climate adaptation can reduce risk while deepening inequality. This post examines how land rights, gender, wealth and local power shape who benefits; and why locally led approaches are essential to making adaptation effective, inclusive and sustainable.

Climate in Common is a communications toolkit that will help groups connect with working class people. It gives campaigners, civil society organizations and policymakers ten practical tools for building working class engagement with climate policy.

A range of disproportionate impacts on disabled people were cited in New Zealand’s latest national climate change risk assessment. Disabled people want to be heard, as well as play a leading role in guiding how New Zealand adapts to a changing climate.

Americans with disabilities are at greater risk from the health impacts of climate change. Extreme weather events are especially dangerous for people with health issues and limited mobility, and emergency plans are often insufficient to ensure safety.

Chiefs in Ontario say they were left to self-evacuate before homes burned to ground, after being told there was no imminent threat.

Millions of people in Australia are about to feel their phones buzz with a message and hear a loud, siren-like warning. It’s a preview of how the country plans to warn its population when the next bushfire, flood or cyclone comes down.

The main objective of this policy brief is to offer evidence-based and concise findings, and policy recommendations to strengthen coherence between CCA and DRRM at the Provincial Level in Nepal.

More than 900 wildfires are burning throughout Canada, with devastating impacts for First Nations. Thirteen Nations remain under evacuation orders that have forced 2,182 people from their homes.

As El Niño intensifies, evidence from across the Amazon basin shows why Amazon wildfire prevention depends on Indigenous knowledge and fire governance built from the territories up.

Five years ago, British Columbia’s heat dome became one of the deadliest weather disasters in Canadian history.

This study examines community resilience to urban flooding in deprived areas, highlighting how household preparedness, collective action and institutional communication shape protective behavior and flood risk management.

This working paper examines how social assistance programs can support climate adaptation and nature-based solutions (NbS) in least developed countries (LDCs).

Imagine a global political summit that shapes the future of our planet where one of the most populated countries in the world does not have a voice?

The report draws attention to Australia’s workforce of First Nations women in fire and land management, and highlights the profound positive impacts that culturally responsive professional development programs can have on this cohort.

In remote communities, many homes trap heat. This is because houses are not typically designed for local climate conditions. Frequent power shortages and a lack of repair services leave these communities even more exposed.