Key CBA websites

Background and policy

A vital approach to the threat climate change poses to the poor

This briefing paper describes a new approach to addressing the vulnerability of poor communities to climate change: Community-based adaptation (CBA). CBA begins by identifying the communities in the developing world that are most vulnerable to climate change. These are generally very poor, depend on natural resources, and occupy areas prone to environmental shocks.

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Using cost-benefit analysis to analyse community based disaster risk management projects: ( D. Willenbocke (ed) / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group] , 2011); This study provides a systematic cost-benefit analysis of a community-based disaster risk management project led by Practical Action in two districts of Nepal over the period 2007 to 2010. The objecti...
Survivors?: Pastoralists in a changing climate: ( Arid Lands Information Network , 2011); Pastoralism is a free-range livestock production system. It is practised in all of Africa’s dryland regions, and in some communities it is the main source of food security and income. But will p...
Impacts of climate change on health: focus on Africa: ( M., J. Chimbari (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2010); The interactions between health and climate change are clearly recognised; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change includes a chapter on health issues in all its publications. But we still need ...
A vital approach to the threat that climate change poses to the poor: ( S. Huq / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2007); This briefing paper describes a new approach to addressing the vulnerability of poor communities to climate change: Community-based adaptation (CBA).

CBA begins by identifying the commu...
A Summary of the Second International Workshop on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: ( M. Gutiérrez;L. Mead / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg , 2007); The bulletin describes the second community based adaptation (CBA) workshop held in Dhaka in February 2007.
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Adaptation to climate change in rural societies: ( H. Fritschel / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2006); The paper gives an overview of the ways in which climate change will impact rural societies, in particular poor farmers in developing countries.It predicts that Africa will be hardest hit because of i...
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...
Lessons from case studies on the application of climate change adaptation strategies in the developing world: ( Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development , 2003); This information paper illustrates sustainable dryland management practises in communities vulnerable to climate change with case studies in India and the Sudan.
In both cases the adaptation program...
Experiences of forest landscape restoration in Central America for climate change adaptation: ( Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development , 2003); Tropical hillsides in Latin America, Africa and Asia cover 9% of the world’s landmass and hold 20% of the world’s fresh water. These ecosystems, however, are fragile and vulnerable to unstable climat...