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Intangible cultural heritage, natural disasters and climate changeThis chapter discusses how the knowledge and practices related to living heritage can contribute to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources and enhancing environmental…
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Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case study from ColombiaThis video is the second video of unit 1.2 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and Xinyue Gu. What are…
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Nature’s solutions to landslidesThis video is the first video of unit 1.2 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and Xinyue Gu. What are…
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Q&A | Thomas Lassourd | 2018 Mar. 13Thomas Lassourd with the Natural Resources Governance Institute answers questions about the module on fiscal regimes. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
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Q&A | Michael Ross | 2016 Sep. 22Michael Ross, a professor at UCLA, answer questions on the ethics of importing natural resources from countries without strong regulations, the political factors that influence resource extraction,…
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Disasters and Public HealthDisasters of various kinds, including hurricanes, monsoons, earthquakes, and landslides, poses a public health emergency. In this video, Professor K. Sinrath Reddy addresses how these disasters…
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Nature-based Solutions: ResilienceThis chapter summarizes the information on different water related natural disasters, focusing on the relationship between nature-based solutions and ecosystems, risk and disaster management, and…
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Urban Risks and VulnerabilitiesThis video is part of Module 3: How can we reduce urban poverty and make cities inclusive and safe? Urban poverty is also one of the most challenging issues in development exacerbated by issues…
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Entering the AnthropoceneScience indicates that although the Holocene is our desired state, we have moved into the Anthropocene. Human influence has constituted a force of change that is, in pace and magnitude, larger than…
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Mediating Natural Resource ConflictsHow can mediation be used to resolve natural resource-related conflicts? This chapter addresses when mediation is appropriate, how it can be most effectively undertaken, and the potential for…
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Vulnerability and 'Natural' DisastersSarah Bradshaw discusses the concept of disaster and its imapct on vulnerable populations. First, she stipulates that there is no such thing as a natural disaster; there are natural hazards, like…
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Gendered Experiences of DisasterThere is very little information about who makes up the casualties of disasters, but some have suggested that women are 14 times more likely to die during an event in unequal societies. This is most…
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Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace - TrailerEnvironmental peacebuilding has emerged as a new frontier in interdisciplinary studies. It offers a conceptual and operational framework to understand the positive peacebuilding potential of natural…
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Extreme Weather ProjectionsLooks at the projections for extreme weather events not yet discussed in the module as climate change continues. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
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Tropical Cyclone and Hurricane ProjectionsLooks at the projections for future tropical cyclones and hurricanes, using the embedded model approach to look at how climate change will affect these events. This video is licensed under the CC…
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Threats from the Sea BedWhat is a tsunami and how does it occur? 80 percent of tsunamis are produced when earthquakes displace the sea floor, and the rest are from landslides underwater. There are experiments being done now…
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