Climate change adaptation
- Practical and evidence-based policy actions to achieve food security in the context of climate change
- J. Beddington (ed); M. Asaduzzaman (ed); M. Clark (ed) / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change. It reasons that w...
- 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 challenges, interventions must, at all stag...
- 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. This report outlines the challenges ...
- How can sustainable livelihoods approaches be more successfully applied to future development challenges?
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
- Anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture and the implications for local and national food security...
- 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 (DRR), social protection (SP) and l...
- Integrating climatic-disasters prevention and risk-management tools in Madagascar and Haiti
- L. Bockel; M. Thoreux; S., D. Sayagh / EASYPol, 2009
- 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. Focusing particularly on Madagasca...
- Adaptive social protection - a framework for adjusting to climate change
- M. Davies; J. Leavy / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- 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 reducing poverty if they do not consider...
- Toolkit for adaptation of livelihoods to normal and emergency climate change situations
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009
- The existing poverty and the likelihood of severe effects of climate change in developing countries highlights the critical importance of adaptation to its impacts. Without substantial intervention, the likelihood of reaching global a...
- Analysis on climate change impacts and the investment needed for adaptation
- G. C. Nelson; M. W. Rosegrant; J. Koo / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for fo...
- The effect of agricultural practices on climate change
- H. Paul (ed); S. Semino (ed); A. Ernsting / EcoNexus, 2009
- Agriculture plays an important role in climate change, both as a contributor emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and as a potential reducer of negative impacts. This paper gives an overview of how current and proposed agricultural pract...
- 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 Highlights Brief looks at a series o...
- 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 (DRR), social protection (SP) and l...
- Integrating climatic-disasters prevention and risk-management tools in Madagascar and Haiti
- L. Bockel; M. Thoreux; S., D. Sayagh / EASYPol, 2009
- 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. Focusing particularly on Madagasca...
- Adaptive social protection - a framework for adjusting to climate change
- M. Davies; J. Leavy / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- 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 reducing poverty if they do not consider...
- Toolkit for adaptation of livelihoods to normal and emergency climate change situations
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009
- The existing poverty and the likelihood of severe effects of climate change in developing countries highlights the critical importance of adaptation to its impacts. Without substantial intervention, the likelihood of reaching global a...
- Analysis on climate change impacts and the investment needed for adaptation
- G. C. Nelson; M. W. Rosegrant; J. Koo / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for fo...
- The effect of agricultural practices on climate change
- H. Paul (ed); S. Semino (ed); A. Ernsting / EcoNexus, 2009
- Agriculture plays an important role in climate change, both as a contributor emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and as a potential reducer of negative impacts. This paper gives an overview of how current and proposed agricultural pract...
- The affects of climate change on the water resources of vulnerable groups
- C.A. Sullivan; C. Huntingford / National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2009
- This paper focuses on the impact of climate change on water resources and the affect it has on human society. Millions of people are at risk from the impacts of climate change associated with the socio-political dimensions of global c...
- Disaster Risk Reduction: children speak out
- D. Walden; N. Hall; A. Spalton / Plan, 2009
- Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to disasters - one in every three survivors of the Indian Ocean Tsunami were women or children under the age of 15. However, research has shown - see the 2007 UNISDR repo...
- Are rights-based approaches the way forward for conservation?
- J. Campese (ed); T. Greiber (ed); T. Sunderland (ed); G. Oviedo (ed) / Center for International Forestry Research, 2009
- The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can un...
- Integrated Development Society
- Integrated Development Society (IDS) Nepal is a non-for-profit, non-government development organisation working in the field of sustainable development, policy research and knowledge mobilisation.
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- micle
- micle is a research project focused on investigating the social-ecological conditions under which population movements take place.
