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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. 

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Case study
Location: Mali Niger
This case study examines the Justice and Stability in the Sahel (JASS) programme in Mali and Niger to explore whether climate action in the Sahel can generate broader peace and social benefits alongside enhanced resilience.
  • ODI Global
An electric fan cools down a resident inside her house
Update

It is only June, and Europe is already baking through its second extreme heatwave in two months. Temperatures have topped 44 degrees Celsius in parts of the continent.

Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications

The aim was to assess whether there is an inequality in the distribution of populations living in areas at flood risk in each IMD decile, nationally in England and within subsamples

United Kingdom - government
Making Delhi Heat-Resilient: A roadmap with the focus on vulnerable groups  thumbnail
Documents and publications

The study aims to assess Delhi's increasing heat stress and looks into propose roadmap that combines year-round city-wide heat resilience measures with targeted interventions for vulnerable groups.

Centre for Science and Environment
Research briefs

Smog from wildfires is getting worse across much of the U.S., according to a NASA-funded study.

Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc.
Malagasy typical village along the Pangalanes channel, eastern Madagascar (2016)
Update

Even as global rates of workplace injury are declining, action is still needed to reduce harm amongst the most vulnerable. There are also signs of complacency in the face of rising harm from food, drinking water and poor air quality.

Lloyd's Register Foundation
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Documents and publications

This report explores public perceptions of the threat of climate change - perceptions that are shaped by people’s lived experience of risk in their daily lives as much as by scientific evidence.

Lloyd's Register Foundation
The umbrella or parasol held by a ball kid over a player because of the heat during the French Open (Roland-Garros) 2022
Update

Sporting events around the world are being impacted by extreme weather, including heat and heavy rainfall, and tennis is no exception.

Climate Central
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