The world has faced many disasters in recent years, but flood impacts have gained immense
importance and attention due to their adverse effects. More than half of global flood …

Flooding is the most common natural hazard and third most damaging globally after storms
and earthquakes. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to increase flood risk through …

Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining
ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to
better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood …

Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with
rainfall during hurricanes. But little research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there …

Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental
activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises …

«Non capisco più il mondo»: è l'affermazione su cui si troverebbe d'accordo la maggioranza
delle persone di ogni parte del globo. E con ragione. Il nostro mondo è attraversato da un …

The metamorphosis of the world is about the hidden emancipatory side effect of global risk.
This article argues that the talk about bads produces 'common goods'. As such, the …