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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

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Glut of climate risk data prompts fear of US home insurance hike

Climate risk disclosure data is educating - and dividing - home-owning Americans.
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Heat killed a record number of Americans last year

As the planet warms, heat-related deaths are increasing in the U.S., according to a new study that looked at federally reported data since 1999.
USA Today - Gannet Co. Inc.
Tourists enjoying the view at Grand Canyon Skywalk observation point at Grand Canyon West Rim in a sunny day, Arizona, USA
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Climate justice is a critical issue for the tourism industry

Climate change poses increasing and severe risks to tourism businesses. Beach holidays are threatened by rising sea levels, ski resorts can no longer depend on snowfall and some tourism businesses risk becoming uninsurable.
Conversation Media Group, the
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The gaps between institutional and practical disaster risk management measures on coastal flood risks in South Korea’s coastal communities

This study aimed to investigate the status of disaster risk reduction for coastal communities in South Korea by looking at government practices and testimonies from residents.
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What predicts hurricane evacuation decisions? The importance of efficacy beliefs, risk perceptions, and other factors

This article uses data from a hypothetical hurricane situation presented in a survey to examine the roles of different factors in influencing evacuation decisions.
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How does a disease spread from animals to humans? A lot has to do with people’s behaviour

The plagues of antiquity moved slowly because in those days transportation was far slower. In contrast, with modern air travel plagues can now be very easily transmitted from one end of the world to the other within a day or two.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Climate crisis threatens medical blood supply in US amid extreme weather

Turnout at blood drives affected as summers get hotter and extreme weather causes cancellations, Red Cross warns
Guardian, the (UK)
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Exploring the relationship between vulnerability and adaptation of rural households: Disaster resettlement experience from rural China

This study analyzes the implications of disaster resettlement on “vulnerability–adaptation” categories in southern Shaanxi by measuring specific and general resilience.
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