resilience Archives

Arctic resilience assessment: synthesis for Arctic leaders 2017

Other publication / This synthesis integrates key findings of the scientific assessment, the Arctic Resilience Report.

9 May 2017 / About Adaptation and Participation

Feature / At the Arctic Council Showcase in Fairbanks, Alaska meeting, SEI presented blueprints to guide policy on resilience in the arctic region.

9 May 2017 / About Adaptation and Ecosystems

Q&A: Frank Thomalla on lessons from disaster risk reduction in Indonesia

Feature / A new book provides an overview of progress and challenges in disaster risk reduction in Indonesia. SEI Asia’s Frank Thomalla is co-editor.

5 April 2017 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk

Key features for more successful place-based sustainability research on social-ecological systems: a programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) perspective

Journal article / A survey of projects linked to the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) to identify what features of research projects help or hinder success

2 March 2017 / About Ecosystems

Sun rises over rocky banks of the Mekong River between Thailand and Lao PDR.

USAID Clean Power Asia

Project / The USAID Clean Power Asia project was an initiative to facilitate investments in environmentally friendly, grid-connected renewable energy in Southeast Asia.

2017 - 2021 / About Climate policy, Energy access, Finance, Participation, Planning and modelling and Renewables

Are adaptations self-organized, autonomous, and harmonious? Assessing the social–ecological resilience literature

Journal article

31 January 2017 / About Adaptation and Ecosystems

What does resilience mean for urban water services?

Journal article / How resilience thinking can be translated into urban water practice to develop the conceptual understanding of transitions toward sustainability

30 January 2017 / About Cities and Sanitation

Two fishermen put out a net to catch reef fish in Fumato’o, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands.

Analysis shows how climate finance to Pacific Islands varies across countries

Feature / In 2010–2014, a total of US$748 million in official development assistance focused on responding to climate change flowed to the 15 nations, mainly bilaterally.

30 January 2017 / About Adaptation, Finance and Mitigation

Equitable Resilience in Local Institutions (ERLI)

Project / This project aimed to fill vital knowledge, policy and practice gaps on how equitable resilience can be secured through local institutions.

2017 - 2018 / About Disaster risk