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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

Students in Nepal examine a hazard-related mural at their school
Update

Five steps to insure a safe future for climate-vulnerable communities

By addressing gaps in insurance affordability, accessibility, and awareness, the Asia and Pacific region can improve financial protection against catastrophic climate risks and support sustainable development.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Cover and source: Cities Alliance
Documents and publications

Climate finance for the urban poor: A review of global climate funds

The new Cities Alliance report Climate Finance for the Urban Poor: A Review of Global Climate Funds highlights a critical funding gap that must be addressed to better support climate adaptation and mitigation efforts for low-income city residents.
Cover and source: Nature Scientific Reports
Documents and publications

Addressing heatwave impacts on hospital admissions in an Italian region

This study explores the dynamic of emergency department (ED) access during heat waves, showing that heat waves above 39 perceived degrees Celsius significantly increase the number of ED visits in Campania, Italy.
Research briefs

US flood governance drives social inequity, and maybe the next housing market crash

Florida is likely to be the canary in the coal mine, showing a drop in coastal home values starting now.
University of Connecticut
A road is destroyed by flash flooding in Sidi Ouaaziz, Morocco
Update

Worry about climate change on the rise in North Africa, charity reveals

While awareness of the serious threat climate change generally improved in North Africa, the high proportion of 'don't knows' in some countries suggests a greater need to improve understanding of the link between climate change and severe weather events.
Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll
Cover and source: Climatelinks
Documents and publications

Livelihood-focused climate risk assessment: Stress testing livelihood options in the world’s largest terrestrial transboundary conservation area

This Climate Risk Assessment seeks to answer how and in what ways a changing climate limits progress toward diversifying livelihoods for resident communities in the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA).
Cover and source: World Bank
Documents and publications

People in a changing climate: From vulnerability to action - Insights from World Bank group country climate and development reports covering 72 economies

The findings of the the World Bank's Country Climate and Development Reports confirm that, even with optimistic adaptation outcomes, large residual risks make GHG emission reductions urgent. This report gives additional conclusions and recommendations.
Cover and source: Yurom Center
Documents and publications

Reducing vulnerability to disasters in Roma settlements

This report by the YUROM Center details the collection of ethnically sensitive statistical data concerning the Roma community in Serbia in the context of disaster vulnerability and increasing resilience to climate change.
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