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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. 

Latest Social impacts & resilience additions in the Knowledge Base

Heat Wave, Montreal
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Heat caused over 47,000 deaths in Europe in 2023, the second highest burden of the last decade

Heat related mortality would have been 80% higher in absence of the adaptation observed during the present century.
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Wildfire raging near houses
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Blaze blowback: 7 surprising spillovers from wildfire

Fires create new risks like toxic contaminants in drinking water, where plastic pipes exposed to intense heat leach harmful substances, affecting communities unaware of compromised water quality. And more.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
A young boy walking across a refugee camp in Syria.
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How AI is advancing socioeconomic insights into disaster displacement

To better understand and anticipate disaster displacement, this investigative journey employs a type of artificial intelligence (AI) with transformative potential: machine learning. T
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Tired young athletic man in sportswear lying on the lanes of a running track taking a break from training
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Hot days during Olympics linked to climate change

The Climate Shift Index shows that forecasted temperatures will be made up to three times as likely by climate change.
Climate Central
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Using DRR to address inequality and reduce vulnerability – G20, Brazil

Ahead of the second G20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group Meeting, GNDR, along with UNDRR’s (SEM), coordinated an in-person technical session in Rio de Janeiro in July: Using DRR to Address Inequality and Reduce Vulnerability.
Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction
Tired athlete at the racing track
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Rising temperatures and the Paris Olympics: A call to action for climate resilience

As the Paris Olympics get underway, top athletes are demonstrating skill, determination, and resilience as they face their most capable competitors on a global stage. But they are confronting an invisible challenger, too: extreme heat.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
A mother-of-four from the Aban Jotar village, Sindh, Pakistan cradles her toddler while her husband works in the nearby fields,
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A scorching divide: How heatwaves expose inequality

Heatwaves expose existing inequalities while giving rise to new disparities. Not everyone faces the consequences of heat equally; there is a stark divide depending on the socioeconomic situation.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Documents and publications

Decarbonising cooling in UK homes

This policy brief asserts that the UK needs coordinated plans to stop homeowners resorting to emissions-creating air conditioning. Overheating is already a problem in UK homes, resulting in increasing levels of discomfort, illness and death.
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