Wilson Center - ECSP
12042014_ECSP_ResilienceAcademy
In the most climate-change vulnerable regions of our planet, the impacts of extreme weather events threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include deltas, small islands, and exposed coastal regions, as well as arid and semiarid lands and areas affected by glacier and permafrost melt. People on the frontlines of these changes will in many cases face aggravated baseline risks and both extreme and slow-onset effects, including coastal inundation, catastrophic floods, and extended drought conditions.
These stresses have the potential to render spaces effectively unproductive and uninhabitable. A central question for practice, policy, and research revolves around the resilience of peoples whose livelihoods and settlements are threatened by these overwhelming extremes.
This session will include brief discussions by six members of the Global Resilience Academy, supported by the UN University and Munich Re Foundation, on how they are working to provide a platform for connecting communities of expertise and creating concepts to foster resilience. The challenges and opportunities they are addressing include large-scale migration, community managed sustainable agriculture, and voluntary family planning services.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/living-through-extremes-buildi...
12042014_ECSP_ResilienceAcademy
In the most climate-change vulnerable regions of our planet, the impacts of extreme weather events threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include deltas, small islands, and exposed coastal regions, as well as arid and semiarid lands and areas affected by glacier and permafrost melt. People on the frontlines of these changes will in many cases face aggravated baseline risks and both extreme and slow-onset effects, including coastal inundation, catastrophic floods, and extended drought conditions.
These stresses have the potential to render spaces effectively unproductive and uninhabitable. A central question for practice, policy, and research revolves around the resilience of peoples whose livelihoods and settlements are threatened by these overwhelming extremes.
This session will include brief discussions by six members of the Global Resilience Academy, supported by the UN University and Munich Re Foundation, on how they are working to provide a platform for connecting communities of expertise and creating concepts to foster resilience. The challenges and opportunities they are addressing include large-scale migration, community managed sustainable agriculture, and voluntary family planning services.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/living-through-extremes-buildi...