Natural Disasters

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

of company. Histories of acci- dents and natural disasters cast the precarity of Canadian life into sharp … horrors and as heroic tales.15 As compared to natural disasters, accidents are often tied to notions of human …

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …

own lives. More frequent and devastating natural disasters, the Great Recession, and the coronavirus …

Insights on how private capital can finance natural infrastructure to meet our water needs, including an assessment of applicability of the finance instruments to the Canadian Prairies region.

change increases the severity and frequency of natural disasters, risk reduction may become a greater motivator … unforeseen circumstances such as catastrophic natural disasters (e.g., wildfires, pest infestations), the …

Given the rise of the Indo-Pacific region, and the profound impacts of the region on the lives of all Canadians, the Government of Canada recognized the need for a comprehensive, …

providing humanitarian assistance in times of natural disasters and conflict, providing opportunities for …

Natural resources play fundamental roles in our well-being and lives. Oceans, forests, lakes, rivers, and grasslands—and the biodiversity they support—contribute to nourishing us, regulating air quality, cleansing water, and myriad …

countries are more and more vulnerable to natural disasters such as desertification, floods, and forest …

GDP growth suggests sound economic development in Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2020. In contrast, a study of the nation's comprehensive wealth paints a picture of moderate progress at …

markets, as well as to building resilience to natural disasters. Figure 3 shows that Trinidad and Tobago experienced …

For decades, national policy-making has focused on GDP, with growth celebrated as the main standard for deciding how well countries are doing. Yet GDP is a short-term indicator that captures …

cities and islands, reducing the impacts of natural disasters to which the country is prone, among other …

Les résultats des analyses de contenu et des entretiens menés auprès de gestionnaires et de dirigeants œuvrant dans l’industrie agroalimentaire québécoise mettent en lumière quatre principaux types de motivations : …

peu de contrôle : Erratic weather patterns, natural disasters and other shocks can and have impacted the … vulnerable to adverse weather conditions and natural disasters, such as floods, droughts, frosts, earthquakes … pestilence. Adverse weather conditions and natural disasters can lower crop yields and reduce crop size …

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …

connections between state responses to “natural” disasters and practices of racial and colonial violence …

In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is …

With rapid climate changes, devastating natural disasters, and the ensuing displacement of people, …