Climate and Disaster Resilience Community Forum in Sutojayan Village
The new community forum has allowed occupants to understand disaster-prone maps in their area, formulate and implement climate adaptation and mitigation actions at the local level.
CRC
The Croatian Red Cross is a humanitarian, first-aid organisation that has worked ailling the wounded, sick and destitute in the country since the 1800s.
An app to fight against floods, wildfires and extreme weather events
The app enables its users to share pictures and other information on natural hazards and provides extensive information from multiple sources about the risks of suffering from these threats.
FRACTAL Learning - Adaptation Inspiration Theme Module 5
Adaptation Inspiration Theme: Building Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the City of Lusaka, Zambia
Resilience Scan: July-September 2017
This Resilience Scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter of 2017.
Understanding Community Disaster Resilience
This animation visualises and explains the key components of the emBRACE project framework, and illustrates its potential utility as a tool to better understand CDR processes in communities.
Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, University of South Carolina
The Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute (HVRI) is an interdisciplinary research and graduate and undergraduate training center focused on the development of theory, data, metrics, methods,
emBRACE: Social Learning and Resilience Building
This report explores how the challenges faced by communities at risk from environmental hazards might be tackled via the application of social learning practices.
The 3As: Tracking Resilience
This paper presents an explanatory framework for measuring resilient outcomes that embraces and makes sense of the current diversity in resilience approaches.
emBRACE Flyover South Tyrol
Check out this Google Earth Flyover video for the emBRACE case study South Tyrol, Italy.
Beyond Resilience
"Climate Change's Role in Disaster Risk Reduction's Future: Beyond Vulnerability and Resilience" is a new paper freely available for download. Read the summary here.
SREX
This report presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX).
Alpine Hazards in South Tyrol in Italy
This case study is part of the emBRACE project. In an interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative context, emBRACE aims to improve the framing of resilience in the context of...
Focus Humanitarian Assistance
Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) is an international group of agencies established in Europe, North America, South and Central Asia to complement the provision of emergency re
Methods for Community Resilience
The paper links inter- and trans-disciplinary methodologies to map stakeholders’ knowledge and combine this with the best available data for disaster resilience planning.
Indian Ocean Early Warning System (THAILAND)
Image showing tsunami hazard zone and evacuation map
Project descriptionImplementing community based early warning in Thailand, in collaboration with regional...
Disasters and Climate Change
Generating knowledge to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) with equitable, sustainable and resilient development, recognizing that development and DRR are interlinked.
Ecosystem-based adaptation and climate change vulnerability: Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands
A typical coastal village on Choiseul Island, in the Solomon Islands. Photo: Kat Gawlik
Adaptation contextChoiseul province (traditionally named Lauru) is the...
Coastal Resilience in Baan Tha Klong Thailand
Baan Tha Klong is a coastal village located in Koh Lanta district in the province of Krabi by the Andaman Sea. In the past fishing served as the main source...
Using climate information to plan adaptation in Cape Town
A vegetable farmer in Philippi, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Source: FLICKR/KOSMOSELEEVIKE
This case study focuses on the climate dimensions of land use...
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