World Water Day: knowledge showcase

To celebrate World Water Day 2018 we have created a showcase of the top nature-based resources on the portal. The breadth of this knowledge shows the true potential of nature-based approaches to build flood resilience: from using ecosystem services to reduce disaster risk to the value in prioritising green infrastructure during recovery. There’s also a few case studies to show how these approaches have been used in practice.

21
March,
2018

Meet the Human Faces of Climate Migration

A new World Bank report has found that by 2050 the worsening impacts of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world could see more than 140 million people move within their countries’ borders. With concerted action, however, including global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and robust development planning at the country level – this worst-case scenario could be dramatically reduced, by as much as 80 percent, or 100 million people.

20
March,
2018

Meet the Human Faces of Climate Migration

Women as a force to build resilience

Many risk drivers are created by development choices at global or national levels, but all are manifested at the local level, so local people must be central to risk reduction practice. But it is important to recognise that in these communities it is the disabled, elderly, women and girls who are the most at risk. For example, women accounted for 61% of fatalities caused by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008, 70-80% in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and 91% in the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh[i]

08
March,
2018

How Architecture Is Tackling Increasing Floods From Climate Change

The Porous City Network was established in 2017 to "increase urban resilience and adaptability to confront future climate uncertainty in vulnerable communities in Bangkok and other Southeast Asia Cities." This ambitious project provides one example of how architectural solutions can empower citizens to increase their resilience to flooding.

06
March,
2018

How Architecture Is Tackling Increasing Floods From Climate Change

Preparing for 'trigger points' key to resilience

Climate change means drought and flood risks now exist everywhere in the world and preparing for "trigger points" is key to resilience, Jacobs Vice-President Bryan Harvey told the World Water-Tech Innovation Summit in London.

27
February,
2018

Preparing for 'trigger points' key to resilience

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