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The report uses advanced modelling and other cutting-edge analytics to take a whole-of-the-economy perspective so that the Bio-Circular-Green model (BCG+ in this report) is assessed within the context of broader economic development.
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Now Bangkok is turning to nature to help fight the floods. Voraakhom is among a group of landscape architects helping to launch urban forests throughout the city
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Cyclists driving through flooded streets in Pekalongan, Indonesia (2021)
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Analysis of geographically granular data is essential to identify vulnerable areas and optimize resource distribution.
Development Asia
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SEI has been working with local partners to improve early warning systems on the Thailand-Myanmar border, and to build resilience to drought and climate change.
Stockholm Environment Institute
A small Asian girl hides behind the brick wall from the sun.
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Babies and young children are often at the greatest risk of heat-related mortality.
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
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This study compares the projected individual and combined impacts of climate change (CC) and land-use change (LUC) on future droughts (2021–2050), with respect to baseline (1981–2010) in one of the major tributaries of the Mekong River.
Tavida Kamolvej is is the Deputy Governor of Bangkok. She worked for 20+ years as a disaster specialist, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University and is a well-known Thai public policy professional.
Thai university collaboration
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Thailand has been on an extraordinary journey with the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative since 2022. Universities have been key to this progress
Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific

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