Kenya’s perfect storm of Covid-19, floods and locusts swarms: What does it mean for food security?
In 2020, the East African region faced the multiple threats of locust swarms, flooding and COVID-19 which affected the livelihoods and food security of millions of people. This video discusses what could have been done to reduce the impacts of these threats.
FilmAsMethod
In times of global change, effective communication with different publics is an increasingly relevant task for geoscientists.
Documentary: All in the same boat
This documentary, `All in the same boat´, follows a people-centred approach in communicating flood risk to at-risk communities, as suggested by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Center for Studies and Disaster Prevention
The Center for Studies and Disaster Prevention - PREDES - is a non-governmental, nonprofit organization created in 1983 to help reduce vulnerability and disaster risk in Peru.
ACCC: User-friendly climate science
This report looks at communicating data for decision-making in China.
ACCC: Health
This research on climate change and health conducted in Guangdong province indicates that extreme climate events increase the risk of mortality and infectious diseases.
Mainstreaming adaptation in the farming communities of the Philippines
Summary
Being an archipelagic developing country composed of 7000 islands, the Phillippines is highly vulnerable to climate related hazards. The most vulnerable sectors are the upland...
Audiovisual Tools for Community-Based Adaptation in Malawi
The aim of this project was to strengthen the capacity for climate adaptation in rural Malawi, particularly among smallholder farmers.
Content of the communication: risk
We now need to give some thought to the content of the messages about climate risks that we wish to communicate. This is where we face the challenge of conveying meaning between people with...
Considering the process of communicating
Communication is a complex two-way process, with a number of factors that can lead to miscommunication, or the 'lost in translation' effect. Miscommunication can result from the choice of...
Challenges and opportunities in communicating risk
Learned lessons from developing climate risk communication strategies and implementing them on the ground have helped us to understand better the challenges and opportunities associated with the...
Lessons learned in the field: thinking about the content for risk communication
'Awareness was necessary before implementing any adaptive measures, as there was a general lack of information on climate risk in the community', Nepal ACCCA Pilot Action.
Learned lessons...
ACCCA Bangladesh
Photo from UNITAR Project Report
This project aims to develop a community-driven adaptation plan of action, as well as to facilitate the mainstreaming of climate...
