East Asia and Pacific
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How effectively has climate change been mainstreamed into development programmes in the Philippines?
- ( R. D. Lasco;F. P. Pulhin;P. A. Jaranilla-Sanchez / World Agroforestry Centre , 2008)
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The Philippines, as an archipelagic and developing country, is highly vulnerable to climate change, with the poorest of the poor likely to bear the brunt. Noting that the most effective way to addr...
- Effectively dealing with climate change in developing countries
- ( United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , 2007)
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The impact of climate change will have a detrimental effect on the livelihoods and survival of billions of people. This book provides an overview of the concerns and needs of four regions: Africa, ...
- How can communities in Viet Nam adapt to recurring droughts?
- ( R. Shaw;S., V., R., K. Prabhakar;H. Nguyen;P. Mondal / Oxfam , 2007)
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This paper presents a study on the impacts of recurring droughts on communities in the Ninh Thuan province of Viet Nam. It examines the root causes of drought in the region, people's perceptio...
- How vulnerable are global coastal cities to climate change hazards?
- ( A. de Sherbinin;A. Schiller;A. Pulsipher / Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University , 2008)
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This paper examines the vulnerabilities of three global coastal cities – Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai – to climate hazards. It highlights system characteristics that, in unique c...
- Community Risk Assessment: methodologies and case studies
- ( ProVention Consortium , 2007)
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This webpage presents an extensive collection of methodologies and case studies on Community Risk Assessment, collected and analysed by Cape Town University, Ben Wisner and the ProVention Consortiu...
- Developing the institutional capacity of China, India, Brazil and South Africa for international climate change policy
- ( F. Yamin / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2007)
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The role of large developing countries in combating climate change will become increasingly important as the world negotiates a post-2012 agreement on climate change. This report summarises the act...
- Will global warming send Asia and the Pacific 'up in smoke'?
- ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , 2007)
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Global scientific consensus indicates that all of Asia is very likely to warm during this century and it is here that the human drama of climate change will largely be played out. This report from ...
Training young people to deal with future disasters
- ( UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office , 2007)
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Young people in Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand have been confronted in the past few years with a series of disasters of tremendous proportions. This paper reports on a regional forum on Disas...
- Coping with climate variability and change
- ( R. Vernooy / International Development Research Centre , 2007)
- Communities have coped for millennia through extremes of flood and drought by cooperatively managing shared natural resources, and by cultivating a variety of robust, indigenous crop types that can su...
- Building community capacity to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability
- ( South South North , 2006)
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The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the community to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability, as well as to facilitate poverty reduction. The specific obj...
