Disaster risk

Our research recognises that disaster risk and development are closely linked: it is development processes that largely determine who and what is exposed to risk as well how much, and how effectively they can respond. SEI works to integrate disaster risk reduction with equitable, sustainable and resilient development.

Webinar: Transboundary climate risk and adaptation

Past event / This webinar explores transboundary climate risks, research gaps and the challenges for policy and global governance.

29 April 2021 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Finance, Mitigation, Public policy and Supply chains

Silhouette of a man on the top of a mountain in the night, with a lantern in the hand doing a beam of light on a sky of stars

When will we have the first Climate Accountability Summit?

Perspective / The Leaders Summit on Climate was the United States’ grand re-entry into international climate politics, fuelling further progress up until COP26.

27 April 2021 / About Climate policy, Disaster risk and Sustainable Development Goals

Disasters exacerbate many of the prevailing gender inequalities that exist in societies

Learning from Covid-19 to strengthen gender-responsive disaster risk reduction

Past event / The event will highlight the need for and effectiveness of gender-responsive disaster risk reduction in Covid-19 recovery.

23 April 2021 / About Disaster risk

Examining the use of serious games for enhancing community resilience to climate risks in Thailand

Journal article / Read about the toolkit of games for building learning on resilience among urban low-income communities.

15 April 2021 / About Cities, Climate policy and Disaster risk

Improving the environment requires improving social equity

Feature / In Bosnia and Herzegovina, as in the rest of Europe and beyond, environmental issues are connected with issues of gender (in)equality and social (in)equality.

21 April 2021 / About Adaptation, Cities, Disaster risk, Participation, Sustainable lifestyles and Wellbeing

Opening space for equity and justice in resilience: A subjective approach to household resilience assessment

Journal article / Read the two-stage, subjective approach to resilience assessment in Bangladesh using rapid household interviews and participatory qualitative methods.

12 April 2021 / About Adaptation, Disaster risk and Participation

From local surprises to global shocks: building resilience through the planetary boundaries framework

Feature / The destruction of nature endangers both human and environmental health. Nature-based solutions could prove the “Earth’s best bet for the coming decades.”

25 March 2021 / About Adaptation, Behaviour and choice, Business, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Food and agriculture and Public policy

Planetary boundaries: Challenges for science, civil society and politics

Other publication / This report explores how the concept of planetary boundaries can be developed and operationalized to build concrete environmental and sustainability goals.

24 March 2021 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Mitigation and Public policy

Floating solar panels installed on water supply of neighbouring greenhouses, elevated view, Netherlands. Image: Mischa Keijser / Getty

Defections and death spirals

Perspective / There is great potential for synergies to emerge when gridless technologies for energy and WASH are combined in off-grid settings.

22 March 2021 / About Business, Cities, Disaster risk, Household energy, Innovation, Sanitation, Transport and Water resources