Brazil

Brazil is not an exception to the increasing frequency and intensity of droughts in several countries. However, assessing the spatial and temporal identification of drought episodes is an extremely complex process. Drought indices are particularly useful

In Brazil, droughts are widespread and recurrent in the semiarid region, mainly due to its water vulnerability. Approximately 28 million people live in the region, which concentrates the highest proportion of people living in poverty in Brazil. If drought

Brumadinho, Minas Gerais State. Friday, January 25th, 2019. At 12:28, the tailings dam of the Córrego do Feijão mine, owned by Vale S.A., ruptures. On the first day, it was established that 13 million cubic metres of mining rejects had been released into

La presente estrategia constituye una herramienta orientativa que propone una visión futura para los países miembros de la Reunión de Ministros y Altas Autoridades de Gestión Integral de Riesgos de Desastres — Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay. La

On January 25th 2019, the municipality of Brumadinho, located in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, was devastated by the collapse of Dam 1 of the Vale company’s Córrego do Feijão iron mine. The dam burst caused one of the world’s worst mining dam

Climate change is a global phenomenon, but the impacts are distributed locally and unevenly in cities. The urban poor are the most affected by climate change and are more likely to live in areas that lack sufficient infrastructure to respond to climate

This overview sets out recommendations, based on the present study, to strengthen implementation of refugee law-based international protection when cross-border movements occur in the context of nexus dynamics. The recommendations are framed to advance