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- This paper analyses what different urban actors (citizens; politicians; urban planners and designers; and urban climate experts) who shape the urban environment and thus its climate, know about urban climate adaptation measures. Thereby, this study is concerned with the levels of awareness about urban climate adaptation, using semi-structured interviews...
- This research focuses on the perception of the people in charge of operationalizing the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework and the New Urban Agenda, as these agendas share a vision of global sustainable development, with several overlapping goals and targets. However, these agendas are often treated along sectoral...
- This study has been conducted in the Caraga region of northeast Mindanao, in order to better understand the interlinkages between coherent planning and conflict and to explore the possibilities and limitations of coherence approaches in conflict-sensitive settings. Despite the multi-dimensional nature of the conflict in the Caraga region, the underlying...
- This report examines short-term health impacts of the 2019-20 bushfires - those that became apparent in the immediate days and weeks thereafter - with a focus on providing insights from health data. Understanding the more immediate and short-term physical and mental health impacts of bushfires can help to ensure health services are sufficiently equipped...
- This paper examines the responses of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nation) member countries to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the limits of regional cooperation, as cross-border and multi-sector cooperation are essential components of coordinated efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 infections. ASEAN has pre-existing cooperative frameworks...
- This report focuses on the gaps and challenges in referral pathways and inter-sector coordination specifically in Beirut after the 4 August 2020 Blast, and presents recommendations to improve access to multi-sector services of vulnerable communities. The paper looks towards the upcoming winter storms, which occur every year in Lebanon and are likely...
- This study investigates the relationships between the frequency (number of events) and severity (fatalities, economic losses, and affected people) of natural hazards and DRR policy change in 85 countries over eight years. Natural hazard events provide opportunities for policy change to enhance disaster risk reduction (DRR), yet it remains unclear whether...
- A team of researchers from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara propose a framework for evaluating climate change adaptations, provide a case study of California
- Muthupet, the World Bank supported Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project helped regenerate more than 2,000 hectares of mangroves along the most ideal sites.