South Asia
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- How can livelihood diversification influence adaptive capacities in rural Bangladesh?
- ( J. Pouliotte;N. Islam;B. Smit;S. Islam / Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary , 2006)
- For many of the poorest residents of Subarnabad, a village in rural Bangladesh, lackof money to meet basic needs is related to the environmental changes that have been occurring during the last 25 to ...
- 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...
- Can decentralised renewable energy tackle both climate change adaptation and mitigation?
- ( H. Venema; M. Clsse / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg , 2004)
- This book argues that well-designed decentralised renewable energy projects are both a mitigating and adaptive response to climate change. Decentralised renewable energy projects (DREs) address core s...
- Literature review on climate change adaptations for sustainable livelihoods
- ( N. Pandey / Winrock International India, New Delhi , 2005)
- Historical adaptations to climate change are widely recognised, but adaptations by contemporary society living in regions with a fluctuating climate are not. This paper explores the literature on mons...
- Identifying factors which enable South Asian communities to adapt to floods, droughts and climatic variability
- ( M. Moench; A. Dixit / Institute For Social And Environmental Transition , 2004)
- This ‘Adaptive Strategies Project’ is the result of collaboration between local organisations, regional NGOs, international organisations and academic institutions; it attempts to understand and defin...
- China and India face prospect of permanent water shortage
- ( T.P. Barnett; J.C. Adam; D.P. Lettenmaier / SciDev.Net , 2005)
- Around one-sixth of the world’s population is dependant on glaciers and seasonal snow packs for their water supply. But climate change is disrupting the annual flow of water downstream from snowy moun...
