📢 Article alert 📢
New brilliant piece on disaster risk governance from our own @ulbphil@j_p_albuquerque & colleagues at @urbelatam 🙌
Citizen involvement is crucial for achieving disaster risk reduction - explore case studies from 🇧🇷 & 🇨🇴
Read 👉 https://t.co/JZqS3t2DPi
Effective #DisasterRiskReduction depends on meaningful community involvement. A new @urbelatam paper proposes and tests a framework to evaluate equity in disaster risk governance across governance levels, focusing on policies in Brazil and Colombia: https://t.co/0EChXmTDKi
New in CODATA Data Science Journal: Burcak Basbug, Francis P. Crawley, Virginia Murray Title: The Need for Data Policy in Times of Crisis An IDPC CODATA Report Following a Scientific Workshop Held on 22 October 2022 in Leiden, The Netherlands
https://t.co/iglK1iNxp3
#codata
Great to start this new project led by @ulbphil that builds upon the results of our @urbelatam to build resilience to disasters in Brazilian favelas and urban communities
📊 DataCivil: Empowering Favelas with risk reduction. Led by @ulbphil & @j_p_albuquerque and funded by ESRC IAA, this project aims to transform disaster response in Brazil as communities and officials co-create geospatial data for a more resilient future: https://t.co/wMyrSVn01s
Great to start this new project led by @ulbphil that builds upon the results of our @urbelatam to build resilience to disasters in Brazilian favelas and urban communities
"We need data to make good decisions... and to achieve the #SDGs sooner rather than later," said UN DESA's ASG Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, launching the new UN Data Commons for the SDGs in partnership with @Google. 📊
Explore the tool here ➡️ https://t.co/KmGaER5zgF #SDGLive
New blog: which data is being used to city/regional reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals? Read the first insights from our analysis of the Voluntary Local Reviews in the UK #GlobalGoals#SDGSummit2023
🌐Adding our voice to #GlobalGoalsWeek, we’re delighted to launch the UBDC Local Sustainability Data Blog, with the first insights from UBDC research into #VLR data! Read here: https://t.co/xW21h1ccwx Co-authors @j_p_albuquerque, @diegopajarito, @ulbphil and Massimo Cattino
If you haven't read already, this is your chance to check out our Story Map with @sdgstoday!
We talked about our work with our great partner, Banco do Preventório, and all the amazing things they do.
There's an English and Portuguese version available!
🌍 Exciting news! Our new pilot study, #CityCashTransfer - PI @j_p_albuquerque and Co-I @ulbphil - investigates Cash Transfer Programs' (#CTP) impact on climate, health, socio-economics and the environment in Brazil. Full details and collaborators: https://t.co/QkyLevx9YZ
Really excited to be part of this research on the pioneering use of digital local currencies for cash transfer programs in Niterói and Maricá, in collaboration with @FGV and @ufrnbr
🌍 Exciting news! Our new pilot study, #CityCashTransfer - PI @j_p_albuquerque and Co-I @ulbphil - investigates Cash Transfer Programs' (#CTP) impact on climate, health, socio-economics and the environment in Brazil. Full details and collaborators: https://t.co/QkyLevx9YZ
Working in #sustainabledevelopment, #risk & #resilience, and #data, and looking for inspiration?
Here's a good (7 min) read on the grassroots level aligning local development with risk reduction, with community mapping as catalyst for community action 👇
Good news, everyone! 🔆🗞️
It is with great pleasure that we announce that our StoryMap with @sdgstoday is out today!
You can check it out here:
https://t.co/slbsj0IMbP
Many thanks to the entire Civil Defense team and Secretary Ten. Cel. Wallace for the opportunity and conversation space.
We hope this is a bright future for the city of Niterói and its residents, and an example for everyone to follow.
📸: Niterói's Civil Defense
Equitable research for sustainability transformations in a picture:
a community leader, a municipal climate policy maker, academia, and 'boundary spanners / translators' in-between, discussing joint plans.
@NiteroiPref#bancopreventório@UofGlasgow@FGV
🏘️ 🌎 🧑🎓 🧑🔧
Also, last Wednesday, 02/08th, we met with the Climate Secretary of Niterói, Luciano Paez, to move forward in our partnership to join efforts with public authorities and our community-academic experience. Thank you very much, secretary, for having us!
It's always inspiring to learn from and contribute to institutional innovation with municipal policy makers. Looking forward to the continued collaboration with Niterói's Civil Defense.
Last Wednesday (02/08) we were with Niterói's Civil Defense to talk about risks, disaster containment, climate change and how the community and academic experience we acquired over our 3 years of work can add up to help Niterói develop and progress.