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A resident of Houston, Texas carries away debris after flooding brought about by Hurricane Harvey
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Hurricane Harvey’s hardest hit survivors five times as likely to experience anxiety from COVID-19 pandemic

Respondents with the greatest economic and mental health impacts from Hurricane Harvey were respectively four times more likely to experience income loss during the pandemic and five times more likely to suffer severe anxiety because of the pandemic.
University of Notre Dame
A laborer carries a sack of onions above floodwaters in Lahore, Pakistan
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What the world can learn from the devastating floods in Pakistan

Some people sometimes call such disasters “acts of God,” Ganguly says, but they are not. They are connected to the exacerbation of climate change, and people around the world should be aware of it.
Northeastern University
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Enhancing ASEAN SME Academy to bolster businesses and accelerate COVID-19 recovery

The US-ASEAN Business Council, the U.S. Government through the USAID, and the ASEAN announced a plan to redesign the ASEAN SME Academy, an ongoing e-learning platform for MSMEs in Southeast Asia initially launched in 2016.
Association of South East Asian Nations
A woman wearing a face mask to protect herself from COVID-19 walking across a yellow bridge.
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New pathways towards a more sustainable, more resilient, more prosperous, and more equitable future: the World Reconstruction Conference

Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world, and its consequences have been particularly severe for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
IRP Forum 2022
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International Recovery Forum 2022 assesses 6 years of progress and challenges in disaster recovery toward the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework

The International Recovery Forum 2022, with the theme, “BRedesigning Systems for Resilience through Recovery: Assessing Progress and the Unfinished Agenda at the Midpoint of the Sendai Framework ,” was held online on 19 January 2022.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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The new U.S. Climate Normals are here. What do they tell us about climate change?

Every 10 years, NOAA releases an analysis of U.S. weather of the past three decades that calculates average values for temperature, rainfall and other conditions. That time has come again. Known as the U.S. Climate Normals, these 30-year averages — now
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Acute hunger at five-year high, study warns, as famine looms for millions

Global Report on Food Crises confirms World Food Programme and humanitarian community's worst fears over critical nutrition At least 155 million people in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2020 — 20 million more than 2019, according to figures from the
World Food Programme
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Learning from megadisasters: A decade of lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake

This article commemorates the disaster by reflecting on what it has taught us over in regards to infrastructure resilience, risk identification and preparedness.
World Bank, the
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Understanding the aftershock cloud: 10 Years on since the Christchurch earthquakes

Since the year 2000, only one city located in an advanced market economy has been severely impacted by an earthquake.
Risk Management Solutions
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Preparing for a 1-in-1,000 year loss: Insurance resilience 10 years after the Christchurch earthquake

The CES is the world’s second-costliest insured earthquake loss in history and supports the New Zealand regulator’s 1-in-1,000-year capital requirement.
Risk Management Solutions

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