10th march 2023

Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites of the week

INFORM Climate Change Risk Index 

INFORM Climate Change (europa.eu) 

INFORM, which is a collaboration of the IASC Reference Group on Risk, Early Warning and Preparedness and the European Commission, has published the INFORM Climate Change Risk Index, which quantifies the impacts of climate change on the future risk of humanitarian crises and disasters. It looks at  environmental and  socio economic vulnerabilities and applies calculations and risk projections. The projections are applied at different timeframes (2022, 2050, 2080) to calculate the Change in risk and the Vulnerability gap – the level of vulnerability reduction or coping capacity increase required for a country to preserve its current level of risk. Full methodology is provided on the website 

  

Economía LACEA, from the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Association Now open access from LSE Press.All 350+ backdated journal articles are now free to access, read and download via the new Economía website. . The Journal publishes peer-reviewed general interest research papers in all areas of Economics and Finance.  See the statement 

  

  

ACCESS BROADBAND Dashboard. 

The U.S. Census Bureau, in partnership with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has launched a data dashboard. 

ACCESS BROADBAND stands for Advancing Critical Connectivity Expands Service, Small Business Resources, Opportunities, Access, and Data Based on Assessed Need and Demand Act. The new data tool shows how changes in broadband infrastructure 

 The interactive dashboard allows users to compare maps displaying broadband access statistics to maps of social and economic indicators. Indicators include statistics on employment, small business establishments, wages and income, poverty, home values, population change and migration, educational attainment, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 

ACCESS BROADBAND Act of 2021 (census.gov) 

  

AOPf22 project 

Association of photographers has set up an online gallery 

to encourage collaboration and connections with female and non-binary photographers and networks. The members were invited to create work on the theme of community and all it encompasses. The results can be viewed on line. Ech photo has an extended captions   

  

Medieval womens wills 

 The British Library’s Medieval and Renaissance Women project has recently digitised a number of wills of women from the 13th to the 16th centuries, from England, Flanders and Germany. These offer insight into ownership of property and resources 

  

 Ukraine Conflict Monitor  has been expanded and updated by ACLEDFree access to real-time information and analysis on the war, including an interactive map of the latest data from the start of the invasion onward, a curated data file, and weekly situation updates. The Monitor is designed to help researchers,. It now includes reviews and analysis of the past year. 

 

It has also just launched the  ACLED Conflict Alert System (CAST) an early warning tool forecasts political violence events up to six months in the future for a large number of countries worldwide. The tool predicts the ACLED battles, explosions/remote violence, and violence against civilians event types at the country and subnational level, in addition to producing an overall global forecast. New predictions are published each month for the following six months, alongside accuracy metrics for previous forecasts.  

 

  

Dr Sonja Marzi has launched the website of her project Futuros urbanos desde las mujeres’. Based on her Fritz-Thyssen funded work on the right to the city of displaced and conflict-affected women in Medellin, it shows the challenges women face in the city.  

  

Race today archive 

Race Today : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive 

Race today was first published in 1973 by radical journalists aiming to focus and spotlight issues relating to politics,  life and culture of black community. It first campaigned for justice for the  1980 new cross fire and contained interviews and work of radical black figures such as Darcus Howe and Bernie Grant a great resource for understanding British history. Great resource 

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