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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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Analysing the adaptive capacity of climate change interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique
A. Ospina;R. Heeks / Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenge...
Climate Change and its impact on the livelihood of the Aruban people
Kevin de Cuba / Center for International Environmental Law , 2007
Despite its relatively high living standard and fairly developed economy, Aruba's small size and dense population nevertheless place the island at significant risk to the impacts of climate change. Th...
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, 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 (...

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