04 Feb 2014
Transparent Chennai is an open mapping project that aims to improve urban governance in Chennai, India. The organization is building on and improving poor quality government data through a team of mapping volunteers and by using the power of crowd-so...
Tags: Data set, Crowdsourcing, Urban Risk Reduction
13 Jan 2017
. This ‘resilience scan’ summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter of 2016, focussing primarily on the context of developing countries as well as gender equality and resilience. The scan will be of particu...
Tags: Research, Urban Risk Reduction
31 Mar 2014
The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report presents the current state of knowledge on climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Compared to the Fourth Assessment Report in 2007, “AR5” has a much stronger focus on r...
Tags: Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation