Climate Change Resource Guide

Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change

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Indigenous communities have long been recognised as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to the close connection between their livelihoods, culture, spirituality and social systems and their environment. This key issues guide, developed by an expert, provides resources for better understanding the relationship between indigenous knowledge and climate change, the potential this relationship may hold, and the challenges that may underlie it.

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The atmosphere business: S. Böhm / ephemera, 2012; The contributions collected in this special issue of ephemera question the underlying ideologies and assumptions of carbon markets and bring to light many of the contradictions and antagonisms that ar...
UNEP year book 2012: emerging issues in our global environment: United Nations [UN] Environment Programme , 2012; The United Nations Environment Programme's year book for 2012 shows that we are facing a number of environmental challenges, although scientists and policy makers have made headway on addressing some ...
Low carbon green growth roadmap for Asia and the Pacific: turning resource constraints and the climate crisis into economic growth opportunities: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , 2012; This publication explores the opportunities that a low carbon green growth path offers to Asia and the Pacific region. It articulates five tracks on which to drive the economic system change necessary...
ICT-Enabled Development of Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation: L. P. Pant / 2011; Climate change and related stressors are posing an increasing challenge to livelihoods in low-income communities. Those communities need to develop the capacity to adapt to climate change: coping with...
How political processes affect the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation strategies to water-related stress and hazards: N. S. Pradhan (ed);V. R. Khadgi (ed);L. Schipper (ed) / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, 2012; The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is predicted to be severely affected and socially vulnerable to climate change. This study delves into how political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustain...
Africa human development report 2012: towards a food secure future: 2012; This report by the United Nations Development Programme explores why hunger remains pervasive in Africa, despite abundant agricultural resources, a favourable growing climate and rapid economic growth...
Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils: World Bank, 2012; This report by the World Bank presents state of the art knowledge on the impact of different land management practices on soil carbon sequestration rates across the world. The technical study undertak...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Brazil: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative’s (NICFI) support to the formulation and implementation of national REDD strategies and ot...
Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative: Contributions to a Global REDD+ Regime 2007-2010: R. Tipper / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011; This report is an output of the first iteration of a process of real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). This strand of evaluation addresses NICFI’s contri...
Radio as a development tool in Africa: M. Myers / International Development Research Centre , 2008; Radio is still the dominant mass-medium in Africa with the widest geographical reach and the highest audiences compared with television (TV), newspapers and other information and communication technol...