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- This guidebook provides an overview of risk communication best practices. Also included is information about how and why people perceive risks differently, how to learn more about the audience, and ways to frame responses, as well as sample conversations to illustrate these techniques. Coastal managers will find examples and tips for working with residents...
- The Child-Centred Urban Resilience Framework (CCURF) was developed to assist the work of child-centred organisations to build resilience in cities in support of children. The CCURF is guided by urban systems thinking and aligns child and human rights and gender-sensitive approaches with urban development and promotes children as agents of resilience....
- The international humanitarian system is exploring ways to respond differently to meet needs in the face of the funding gap. The Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), through the Inspire consortium, commissioned this study from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) to explore the role that pre-arranged...
- This case study focuses on su-re.coffee, a project led by an environmental think-tank, su-re.co, in Jembrana areas in the western part of Bali, Indonesia, which is accountable for roughly thirty per cent of the total rice production of the island.The project has a twofold aim: Creating economic opportunities; and Developing climate change strategies.These...
- This article identifies potential flood hazard areas through multi‐criteria analysis in Allahabad district, India. The study has incorporated eight criteria, namely, flow accumulation, draining capability, elevation, groundwater depth, land use, runoff coefficient, slope, and geology for preparing hazard index.The authors suggest that the GIS‐based multi‐criteria...
- Acclimatise was commissioned to implement aspects of readiness support projects in Belize (2018 – 2019), The Bahamas (2018 – 2019) and Guyana (2016 – 2017), and prepare their country strategic frameworks. This support, as seen had three main objectives: To strengthen the institutional capacities of the NDA to access and...
- Former UN Deputy Secretary-General, Lord Mark Malloch-Brow, forecasts that the buzz-word of the post-COVID-19 recovery is likely to be “resilience.”
- In South Africa, the number of COVID-19 cases in the Western Cape, and the pressure on laboratories is rising. Here's what needs to be done, and why.
- Report indicates that US government schemes to buy and demolish homes at high risk of repeated flooding, moving residents to higher ground, should be expanded.
- Article explores the Drought Resilience Impact Platform for early detection, planning and proactive groundwater management to ensure water availability in East Africa.