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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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Rising temperatures and the Paris Olympics: A call to action for climate resilience

As the Paris Olympics get underway, top athletes are demonstrating skill, determination, and resilience as they face their most capable competitors on a global stage. But they are confronting an invisible challenger, too: extreme heat.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
A mother-of-four from the Aban Jotar village, Sindh, Pakistan cradles her toddler while her husband works in the nearby fields,
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A scorching divide: How heatwaves expose inequality

Heatwaves expose existing inequalities while giving rise to new disparities. Not everyone faces the consequences of heat equally; there is a stark divide depending on the socioeconomic situation.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Documents and publications

Decarbonising cooling in UK homes

This policy brief asserts that the UK needs coordinated plans to stop homeowners resorting to emissions-creating air conditioning. Overheating is already a problem in UK homes, resulting in increasing levels of discomfort, illness and death.
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As world warms, global heat deaths are grossly undercounted

Kristie Ebi, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington makes a case for standardizing how heat deaths are reported and for additional investment in heat resilience.
Yale Environment 360
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Documents and publications

Understanding evacuation behavior during cyclones: Evidence from Bangladesh

This paper provided a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of households' evacuation decisions during three cyclone occurrences in Bangladesh.
Documents and publications

Tsunami risk perception of the touristic population of Stromboli Island: Towards effective risk communication strategies

This study focuses on the risks that tourists would face during a tsunami on the island of Stromboli and discusses how to best inform and prepare them.
Old Indian potter at work
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Climate change hits India’s artisans with a double whammy: Extreme heat makes pollution even more dangerous

Air pollution on top of extreme summer heat is causing lung problems globally; the situation is dire in India for makers of traditional musical instruments, who work with wood fires.
Yale Climate Connections
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Extreme heat threatens future Summer Olympics

Athletes are raising concerns about scorching temperatures at the 2024 Paris Olympics, which could affect not only athletes and attendees' health but also athletic performance.
Axios
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