The Conference aims at bridging the gap between science, policy and decision-making to support effective resilience building. According to the latest IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (August 2021), “climate change is intensifying the water cycle”, which will bring more associated flooding and [...]

The 7th Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Conference will bring together academics and development practitioners to present and discuss questions relating to Climate Change and Sustainable Cities.  This conference is hosted by the World Bank (Development Research Group), George Washington University (Elliott School [...]

"No one should be dying or suffering because knowledge that already exists in one part of the world has not reached other parts. It is up   to each of us to take the responsibility ensure that knowledge flows easily to [...]

As applications of resilience have increased the associated measurement options have grown. An unintended consequence of such growth is that the proliferation of resilience measurement approaches hinders efforts to generate evidence that is conceptually consistent and empirically comparable. To address this problem, [...]

  Making agriculture resilience for climate change The Global Framework for Action to Cope with Water Scarcity in Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change (in short, the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture, WASAG) has been designed to bring together key players across [...]