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This report discusses that despite notable contributions to the literature in recent years, significant gaps remain in the understanding of the interaction between slow-and rapid-onset hazards and resulting displacement in the context of climate change

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This annual issue brief highlights the progress at the city, state, and national levels in 2021 to improve India’s resilience to the health risks of extreme heat.
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This document is the first of a series of case studies integrating security analysis of instability and conflict involving nuclear-armed states with cutting-edge climate science. The outcome of a novel collaboration between the Converging Risks Lab of the

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Before the mid 1990s, a few organizations in International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) member countries started to practice risk analysis in the context of dam safety programs. Since that time, several methods and frameworks have been introduced into

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As with many challenges, education can hold the key to finding solutions to a problem such as climate change. This publication assesses how education might address issues of climate change, using the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) model on Education

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This week's Manchester Briefing is co-written by Greater Manchester Police and explores public leadership to create public value recovery and renewal – including the role of local community policing, partnerships, and ‘consequentialist leadership’. The

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This report discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered and intensified existing societal inequalities. People on the move and residents of urban slums and informal settlements are among some of the most affected groups in the Global South. Given

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The civil society sector is experiencing pressure and strain unlike it has experienced before, under the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore how the sector has responded, engaged and acted this past year, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute and

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