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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.
609 results / 48 of 68 pages
Project / The project examines how exposure and vulnerability to water hazards impact infrastructures and populations in Sweden.
Media coverage / The failure of aid agencies to "rebuild better" after the 2004 tsunami.
Project / Including marginalized groups in development and disaster risk planning in Nepal and Thailand.
Media coverage / As Tacloban city struggles six years after being devastated by Typhoon Yolanda, a call to transform current development and recovery models.
Feature / Resettlement planning after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has led to displacement of farmers that had been living on land for generations.
Media coverage / Read the Mediapart interview with SEI researcher Sara Vigil about the effects of climate change and migration in Africa and Asia.
Feature / Leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit: get evidence-based insights and solutions that can be applied across the summit's action tracks.
Feature / Building resilience in conflict prone areas often face a double dilemma: the lack of capacity to address climate driven risks while vulnerability increases.
Perspective / The new Asia-Pacific Disaster Report reveals an alarming new "riskscape" in the region regularly labelled as the most disaster-prone in the world.









