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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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The cost of staying cool: How extreme heat is costing Americans more than ever

In the USA, more than 160 million people in the West, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and parts of New England are living under a heat alert as record high temperatures are being broken.
USA Today - Gannet Co. Inc.
Extreme electrical storm, South Africa
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Extreme weather in South Africa is disrupting tourism – research tracks the impact on coastal areas

The increased intensity of tropical and mid-latitude cyclones has caused severe damage to coastal tourism infrastructure in South Africa’s coastal provinces, which are a hub for tourism.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Understanding and building indigenous peoples resilience to climate shocks

This publication focuses on how Indigenous knowledge and practices are essential not only for resource conservation, but also for their own resilience and for global climate action.
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Documents and publications

Α social protection ‘risk deal’: the missing element for connecting money-in and money-out

This working paper asks what is required for social protection systems to deliver timely, predictable, well-targeted and cost-effective shock response to disasters.
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Documents and publications

Weather, water, and work: Climatic water variability and labor market outcomes in sub-saharan Africa

Using survey data collected from approximately half a million individuals across Sub-Saharan Africa over from 2005 to 2018, this paper examines the causal relationship between water availability and labor market outcomes.
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Indian heatwave exposes a cooling challenge for fresh food

India's heatwave hits small vendors hardest as they cannot keep produce fresh and customers stay off the streets.
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Brazil: IFAD to invest in strengthening the climate resilience of more than 75,000 rural households in Pernambuco

A joint investment of R$300 million will give more than 75,000 rural households in the State of Pernambuco an opportunity to improve their ability to cope with the effects of climate change and achieve sustainable management of Brazil’s semi‑arid region.
International Fund for Agricultural Development
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Thousands perish in unseasonable heat as ‘dangerous climate change is upon us’

In Saudi Arabia, 1.8 million Muslims, many of them elderly, endured 51°C days while attempting Hajj, a pilgrimage from one's home to the holy city of Mecca.
The Energy Mix
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