Social impacts and social resilience

Researchers say urgent action needed to inform people about risks of heatwave temperatures and adapt homes.

Researchers are combining data on earthquake shaking intensity, crowdsourced traffic data from the Waze navigation app and police crash reports to find out if car crashes are more likely during seismic events.

This study presents a framework for assessing the disaster resilience of lifeline networks, emphasizing both hazard resistance and post-hazard recovery capabilities.

This document presents a toolkit, or a practical step-by-step guide, to applying the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) framework.

Tightly connected communities tend to be more resilient when facing extreme events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods or wildfires. Research suggests that community cohesion helps boost the community's ability to withstand disasters.

Tonga Broadcasting Commission explains how Tongan communities, still dealing with the psychological scars of the 2022 volcanic eruption and tsunami, have responded to recent earthquake activity in the country.

This report reviews a resilience project in Chad’s Dar Sila region. It reveals which climate-smart agriculture and livelihood efforts lasted post-project and why, offering lessons for future climate adaptation. Community grain banks proved most durable.

Extreme weather event or natural disaster type that was of most concern for First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit, aged 15 years and older, Canada, 2024