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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate Change Adaptation, Climate change, Livelihoods conflict and disasters, Livelihoods

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  From risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008

  This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change through an analysis of case studies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The paper focuses on water related disasters and the manner in which they may change as a consequence of climate change.
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  Climate change and displacement

  Forced Migration Review, 2008

  In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges of this century.
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  Gender perspectives: integrating disaster risk reduction into climate change adaptation good practices and lessons learned

  United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2008

  It is a well-known prediction that women in the developing world will suffer the most from the effects of climate change. What needs equal emphasis is the fact that women also represent an immense source of potential and power to combat the increased disaster risks that climate change will bring.
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  In the face of disaster: children and climate change

  International Save the Children Alliance, 2008

  Climate change is likely to lead to an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and it will be the people in the poorest countries, especially children, who will bear the brunt.
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  Assessment of impacts and adaptation to climate change: final report of the AIACC project

  Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training, 2007

  It is now recognised that there is an urgent need in developing countries to formulate and implement adaptive strategies that would lessen climate change risks.
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  Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

  ActionAid International, 2007

  Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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  Building community capacity to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability

  South South North, 2006

  The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the community to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability, as well as to facilitate poverty reduction. The specific objectives of the project are: 
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  Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
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  Adaptive capacity and livelihood resilience: adaptive strategies for responding to floods and droughts in South Asia

  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 define factors enabling communities to adapt to floods, droughts and climatic variability.Studies have indicated that vulnerability and adaptive capacity is influenced by eight major factors: th
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  Social vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods and disasters

  Benfield Hazard Research Centre, 2004

  In 1997 the UK Department for International Development (DFID) adopted the priorities of the White Paper on International Development recognising the significance of socio-economic factors in making individuals vulnerable to disaster.

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