Resettlement may reduce urban residents’ risk of suffering climate-related disasters, but it can also increase people’s poverty and vulnerability. A CDKN research project investigates which resettlement policies and practices are socially just and truly reduce future climate risks for individuals, urban regions and society.
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PROJECT: Reducing resettlement and relocation risk
GUIDE: Risk-informed decision-making: An agenda for improving risk assessments under HFA2
More frequent and intense climate extremes are expected as the climate changes; this, combined with changing patterns of exposure and vulnerability, is creating new geographic distributions of risk th
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