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  • Perception Matters: New Insights Into What Determines Resilience

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 27, 2016  //  By Christophe Béné
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    Resilience is increasingly recognized as a powerful concept to help practitioners, academics, and policymakers better understand how people respond to shocks and stressors, and how those responses can be linked to longer-term positive or negative development outcomes, such as wellbeing or food (in)security.

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  • Islands in Paris: New Climate Deal Gives Some Recognition to Humanity’s Truth Bearers

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    December 16, 2015  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
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    The new climate deal coming out of Paris commits governments to hold the rise in average global temperatures to “well below” two degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels. An important dimension of this agreement calls for subsequent work on limiting the increase to 1.5 degrees. This is an important win for islands and other low-lying countries, and for humanity.

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  • Living Through Extremes: Livelihood Systems Key to Effective, Empowering Resilience Measures

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    From the Wilson Center  //  January 7, 2015  //  By Sarah Meyerhoff
    Living Through Extremes

    As climate change upends established patterns of life, resilience – the ability of social and ecological systems to mitigate, endure, and adapt to short-term shocks and long-term stressors – has become a buzzword in development and humanitarian circles. [Video Below]

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