Know Disasters, January-February 2021
This issue focuses on climate resilience. Increasingly dangerous climate impacts are beginning to unravel decades of hard-won sustainable development gains. Floods, droughts, cyclones, fires and rising seas are hitting the poorest and most vulnerable hardest, while efforts to prepare for and manage these risks - although oftentimes innovative and effective - are failing to match the scale and speed of adaptation required.
This issue includes:
- Viewpoint: Adapting to Climate Change on Scale
- Analysis: Climate Change Displacement: How can Cities Cope with Newcomers?
- Analysis: Flashback: The 15th January 1934 Mega Earthquake in Nepal and India
- Point of View: V3ISESH Framework Planning Concept: Sustainability and Adaptation for Inclusive Disaster Risk Management
- Analysis: ‘Children Cannot Wait’ During Humanitarian Crises
- Case Study: Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction in the Global South: An Example from Bangladesh