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The Disaster Risk, Global Change, and Sustainability Nexus
(2019)
This review retraces the brief history and evolution of the global understanding of disaster risk as a compound event, in parallel with research on global environmental change. It highlights the main milestones in this ...
Cross-cutting Issues - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 4
(2019)
As understanding of the interdependence between a healthy planet and healthy people becomes more developed, complex issues that thread through systems and societies gain new importance. Beyond the traditional Global ...
Building Afghanistan’s Resilience: Natural Hazards, Climate Change, and Humanitarian Needs - A paper for the 2016 Brussels Conference on Afghanistan
(2016)
Unless urgent action is taken to build the resilience of Afghanistan’s households, communities, and environment, much of the country’s development gains over the past 15 years could be at risk.