The continuum of resilience capacities

The actions needed to strengthen the resilience of human systems can be understood in terms of resilience capacities, which include...

Forest fire hotspots in Indonesia

Fire hotspots peak when this burning coincides with the dry season (June to September). In very dry years – for example, during droughts,...

Annual damage from floods in South Asia, 1970–2016

South Asia has suffered greatly: between 1970 and 2016, 35 percent of floods in the region occurred here, with devastating effects on...

Responding to the MERS outbreak in the Republic of Korea

In health systems, for example, shocks such as disease outbreaks lead to a series of major policy shifts. As was the case with the Republic...

Applying a resilience-thinking approach to food systems - Food system vulnerability and economic development

Depicts the vulnerability of food systems in Asia-Pacific countries to climate change, alongside gross domestic product (GDP) per capita....

Energy prices and GDP growth in oil-exporting Central Asian countries , 1992–2016

This figure shows the effects of energy price fluctuations on the GDP of the four most oil dependent countries in Central Asia. While not...

Government policies and programmes for building resilience in the Asia-Pacific region

This table outlines some of the policies, programmes and projects implemented for building the four interrelated forms of resilience...

Resilience and the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific region - Several SDG targets have indicators related to disaster risk reduction

Several SDGs make explicit links to resilience, while numerous goals have targets and indicators that capture dimensions of resilience,...

ASEAN Specialized Meteorological Center

This figure shows that as the region has developed economically, and GDP has grown, economic assets at risk have increased substantially....

Income gap growth - World, Asia and Pacific, and Asia-Pacific subregions

Income gap growth - World, Asia and Pacific, and Asia-Pacific subregions.