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24 January 2024

Japan’s aging population will increase disaster vulnerability

As the Noto earthquake showed, the elderly are among the most impacted by natural disasters.

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23 September 2022

How China’s extreme weather summer is affecting its security

This summer has been China’s driest and hottest since consistent records began being kept in 1961. The severe heatwave resulted in and continues to exacerbate a drought.

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21 July 2022

Flooding in India’s Northeast reveals weakness of the Act East Policy

The historic floods show that India’s Act East Policy urgently needs to deal with disaster mitigation and resilience.

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24 January 2022

Disaster risk reduction: A sustainable path for inter-Korea cooperation

Even in its current state of pandemic-induced isolation, North Korea continues to engage the international community on climate adaption and disaster risk reduction.

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13 September 2017

Amid climate disasters, South Asia’s cities need to focus on resilience

Following a disaster, risks can be identified and resilience strategies for cities can be formulated. Still, the implementation of these strategies sometimes fail. Reasons for this have been identified as governance deficits, delayed implementation processes combined with increasing hazards, and the complexity of implementing large-scale changes in megacities.

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15 August 2017

Why resilient cities are important to ASEAN's future

To secure economic progress in the ASEAN over the next half-century, leaders in Southeast Asia must focus on climate change in policy making. As initiatives in Vietnam and India demonstrate, relatively low investments can prevent severe climate events from becoming a disaster, with billions of dollars saved in the decades ahead.