Raquel Guimaraes 🇧🇷 🇦🇹
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Demographer 📊 & Development Economist 🌍 Research Scholar @iiasa.ac.at Exploring: 👥 Population Dynamics 🌱 Environmental Change 🌊 Risk & Resilience 📈 Econometrics UFMG & Stanford Alumna 🎓
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📘 New paper out!
We validated the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) using data from 19,900+ households in 320+ communities across 20 countries.

Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
Assessing Community Resilience: Validating a Universally Applicable Flood Resilience Measurement Framework and Tool - International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Understanding and strengthening community-level resilience to natural hazard-induced disasters is critical for the management of adverse impacts of such events and the growth of community well-being. A key gap in achieving this is limited standardized and validated disaster resilience measurement frameworks that operate at local levels and are universally applicable. The Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) is a foremost tool for community flood resilience assessment. It follows a structured approach to comprehensively assess community flood resilience across five classes of capacities (capitals) to support strategic investment in resilience strengthening initiatives. The FRMC is a further development of an earlier version (the FRMT, the Flood Resilience Measurement Tool). The FRMT has been developed and applied between 2015 and 2017 in 118 flood prone communities across nine countries. It has been validated in terms of content and face validity as well as in terms of reliability. To reduce redundancy and survey effort, the FRMC holds a lesser number of indicators (44 versus 88) and has now been applied in over 320 communities across 20 countries. We examine the validation for the revised resilience construct and the new community applications and present a comprehensive overview of the statistical and user validation process and outcomes in both practical and scientific terms. The results confirm the validity, reliability as well as usefulness of the FRMC framework and tool. Furthermore, our approach and results provide insights for other resilience measurement approaches and their validation efforts. We also present a comprehensive discussion about the dynamic aspects of flood resilience at community level, and the many validation aspects that need to be incorporated both in terms of quantification efforts as well as usability on the ground.
link.springer.com
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iiasa.ac.at
🎉 Happy Birthday, IIASA! For over 50 years, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has united science and policy to tackle global challenges - from climate and energy to data-driven sustainability - connecting the Global North and South through systems thinking. 🌍
raquelrguima.bsky.social
💥 Just back from the Systemic Risk & Climate Extremes Conference & Workshop in Hamburg: 3 intense days of exchange on systemic risk in an increasingly fragile world.

🚀Grateful to connect with brilliant researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across disciplines.

#SystemicRisk #ClimateExtremes
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demographyvienna.bsky.social
📢 Registration is open & the agenda is now available!
Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online.
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...

#WICVienna #demography
raquelrguima.bsky.social
In Hamburg this week for the Systemic Risks & Climate Extremes Conference & Workshop! 🌍

Systemic risks are central to today’s resilience challenges. Excited to exchange ideas and connect.

#SystemicRisk #Resilience

📷 Image by Dominic Wunderlich from Pixabay
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iiasa.ac.at
IIASA is proud to be part of @zcralliance.bsky.social, building resilience to climate hazards worldwide. Their new report, Adaptation finance and the private sector, explores why relying on business alone to close the adaptation finance gap won’t work. 🔽🔽🔽
zcralliance.bsky.social
As climate adaptation needs increase, is this the solution to closing the finance gap?
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iiasa.ac.at
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Sep 2
🌍 First international conference on climate overshoot at IIASA!

📅 30 Sep–2 Oct
📍Laxenburg, Austria

As we edge closer to the 1.5 °C limit, understanding the implications of overshoot has never been more urgent. Join leading experts to explore this critical risk.

🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
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iiasa.ac.at
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Aug 26
The @ipcc.bsky.social has announced the authors for its Seventh Assessment Report (#AR7). With 3 Coordinating Lead Authors & 10 Lead Authors, IIASA will play a key part in delivering the best available knowledge to guide effective and equitable climate action.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/aug-202...
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iiasa.ac.at
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Aug 20
Join us to explore “One Health” at "Science in Action: Five Global Challenges, One Shared Future". Discover how human, animal & environmental health connect and learn strategies to tackle the climate–health nexus. 📆 9 Sept @royalsociety.org @ukri.org 🔴register now: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2...
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iiasa.ac.at
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Aug 18
📅 Save the Date: 9 Sep at @royalsociety.org
🌍 Five global challenges. One shared future.
⚠️ Places are limited and filling quickly – register now to secure your seat.
👉 More info: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2... @ukri.org
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iiasa.ac.at
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Jul 28
Mining does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, according to a comprehensive new study that analyzed the environmental and economic impacts of mining in Brazil.
👉 iiasa.ac.at/news/jul-202...
@natureportfolio.nature.com
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iiasa.ac.at
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Jul 25
✍️ On the blog: IIASA researcher Pratik Patil reflects on how researchers and research institutes can respond more effectively to the emerging polycrisis with transformative approaches and frameworks to facilitate public understanding and policy.

Read the article 👉 iiasa.ac.at/blog/jul-202...
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mclem.org
Today at the @nationalacademies.org I had to pay my respects to Einstein.

Timely words of that great refugee, carved there in stone:

“As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.”
raquelrguima.bsky.social
📘 New paper out!
We validated the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) using data from 19,900+ households in 320+ communities across 20 countries.

Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@iiasa.ac.at @zcralliance.bsky.social
Assessing Community Resilience: Validating a Universally Applicable Flood Resilience Measurement Framework and Tool - International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Understanding and strengthening community-level resilience to natural hazard-induced disasters is critical for the management of adverse impacts of such events and the growth of community well-being. A key gap in achieving this is limited standardized and validated disaster resilience measurement frameworks that operate at local levels and are universally applicable. The Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) is a foremost tool for community flood resilience assessment. It follows a structured approach to comprehensively assess community flood resilience across five classes of capacities (capitals) to support strategic investment in resilience strengthening initiatives. The FRMC is a further development of an earlier version (the FRMT, the Flood Resilience Measurement Tool). The FRMT has been developed and applied between 2015 and 2017 in 118 flood prone communities across nine countries. It has been validated in terms of content and face validity as well as in terms of reliability. To reduce redundancy and survey effort, the FRMC holds a lesser number of indicators (44 versus 88) and has now been applied in over 320 communities across 20 countries. We examine the validation for the revised resilience construct and the new community applications and present a comprehensive overview of the statistical and user validation process and outcomes in both practical and scientific terms. The results confirm the validity, reliability as well as usefulness of the FRMC framework and tool. Furthermore, our approach and results provide insights for other resilience measurement approaches and their validation efforts. We also present a comprehensive discussion about the dynamic aspects of flood resilience at community level, and the many validation aspects that need to be incorporated both in terms of quantification efforts as well as usability on the ground.
link.springer.com
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nytimes.com
Sebastião Salgado, a celebrated Brazilian photographer whose striking images of humanity and nature in the Amazon rainforest and beyond won him some of the world’s top honors and made him a household name, has died at 81.
Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81
www.nytimes.com
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carlzimmer.com
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
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iiasa.ac.at
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · May 1
Congratulations to IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program Director, Petr Havlik, who has been awarded an honorary doctorate by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social for his exceptional contributions to agricultural, climate, & environmental economics research.
🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/may-202...
raquelrguima.bsky.social
Drop by the @iiasa.ac.at booth at @egu.eu and get to know more about our institute! #EGU25 #IIASA
raquelrguima.bsky.social
Had a great time presenting at @egu.eu! I shared research from #IIASA on how specific resilience capitals and disaster risk management cycles can help prevent deaths and injuries from floods, based on data from 66 communities around the world. The work is supported by the Z Zurich Foundation.
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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Apr 29
IIASA at #EGU25:
Visit us at the IIASA booth in Hall X2 (next to the coffee—coincidence? We think not ☕). Among today's sessions:
🙋🏽‍♀️ 08:30 Citizen science @dilekfraisl.bsky.social
🏅 10:45 Award lecture @kornhuber.bsky.social
🌡️ 14:00 Tipping points
🌐 17:10 Risk management
iiasa.ac.at/egu25 #EGUToday
raquelrguima.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to join the first @riskkan.bsky.social symposium in Laxenburg! The event offered a great overview of the network and its working groups, along with insightful panel discussions. I’m looking forward to staying engaged and contributing to the network’s work!
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riskkan.bsky.social
First day of @egu.eu and we have kicked off our first symposium @iiasa.ac.at! With an opening by @kornhuber.bsky.social and now Martha Vogel is introducing the disasters, diseases, health, and well-being working group.
raquelrguima.bsky.social
Looking forward to present my work at the @egu.eu General Assembly next week. If you're attending in Vienna, let's connect!
iiasa.ac.at
IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Apr 24
🌍⏳ 3 days to go! We're counting down to the @egu.eu General Assembly 2025, happening 27 April – 2 May in Vienna and online. Visit the IIASA booth in Hall X2 — right next to the coffee area! Come say hi and chat with our experts.
View all IIASA sessions: iiasa.ac.at/events/apr-2...
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guyabel.bsky.social
The @nytopinion.nytimes.com today features a #dataviz of our new global migration flow estimates.
nytimes.com/interactive/...

Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
www.nytimes.com