Slow-onset climate hazards in Southeast Asia: Social protection and resilience

This report, produced as part of the Critical Challenges of Coastal Southeast Asia (3CSeas) project, explores how social protection mechanisms can build resilience to slow-onset climate change impacts, particularly for coastal communities.

• The report distinguishes between abrupt climate effects, such as typhoons, and 'slow-onset events', which the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) defines as changes evolving incrementally over several years or recurring events that increase in intensity or frequency. Examples of these slow-onset impacts include biodiversity loss, desertification, and sea-level rise.
• Social protection is identified as a critical component of disaster recovery, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and climate change action, primarily targeting the most vulnerable and poorest societal members. However, the report notes that climate change and disasters may simultaneously threaten the viability of these social protection systems.
• There is a stated need for a coherent approach to analyze the relationships between inequality, poverty, social protection, and compounding climate risks, as well as more research into which social protection mechanisms are best suited for specific hazards and time scales.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Slow-onset climate hazards in Southeast Asia: Social protection and resilience. https://www.sei.org/publications/slow-onset-climate-hazards-southeast-asia-social-protection-resilience/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Slow-onset climate hazards in Southeast Asia: Social protection and resilience. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/slow-onset-climate-hazards-southeast-asia-social-protection-resilience/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021slowonset, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Slow-onset climate hazards in Southeast Asia: Social protection and resilience}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = jan, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/slow-onset-climate-hazards-southeast-asia-social-protection-resilience/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }