Livelihoods and climate change
The climate plays a crucial role in the livelihood strategies of millions of people. Livelihoods approaches have been used extensively in analysing impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and in bringing together work on poverty reduction, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. More..
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- How can sustainable livelihoods approaches be more successfully applied to future development challenges?
- ( S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS , 2011)
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Hi...
- Total energy access - a minimum standard of access to energy for all
- ( S. Hunt;A. Scott;L. Bates;D. Corbyn / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group] , 2010)
- One and a half billion of the world’s people have no access to electricity at all, and three billion people rely on traditional biomass and coal for cooking. This report argues that energy pover...
- Combining social protection approaches to better address the key features of adaptive capacity
- ( L. Jones;S. Jaspars;S. Pavanello / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2010)
- How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (...
- Integrating climatic-disasters prevention and risk-management tools in Madagascar and Haiti
- ( L. Bockel;M. Thoreux;S., D. Sayagh / EASYPol , 2009)
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Lack of resilience to climatic accidents seems to be one of the main reasons for the transformation of climatic accidents into environmental, economic and social disasters for rural communities.&nb...
- Adaptive social protection - a framework for adjusting to climate change
- ( M. Davies;J. Leavy / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2010)
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This brief argues that social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches. The authors think that these initiatives are unlikely to succeed in red...
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