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  Biopolitics, climate change and water security: impact, vulnerability and adaptation issues for women

  2007

  The world over, the increased degradation of  ecosystems, excessive consumption of water, contamination and salinisation of water-bearings,  aquifers and dams, along with the impact of
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  Community based technology solutions: adapting to climate change

  SouthSouthNorth, 2007

  Adaptation to the impacts of climate change will require considerable innovation and cooperation, and technology could hold the key to this process. However, in much of the developing world, technologies fail to operate optimally because of inadequate assessment of the location or due to the lack of available capacity where the technology is transferred.
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  A study on gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development: what we know about the extent to which women globally live in a more sustainable way than men, leave a smaller ecological footprint and cause less climate change

  Gender and Environment /Genero y ambiente, 2007

  To what extent do women live more sustainably than men, leave a smaller ecological footprint and cause less climate change? This ideas paper studies what we know about gender equality as a prerequisite for sustainable development.
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  Africa review report on drought and desertification

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2008

  Prepared by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in preparation for the sixteenth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16), this report reviews drought and desertification in Africa by bringing together inputs from member states, regional partners, available documentation and comment from various organisations and individuals.
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  Fuelling exclusion? The biofuels boom and poor people's access to land

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008

  The policy debate about the merits and demerits of biofuels is growing and changing rapidly, with concerns being voiced over their effectiveness for mitigating climate change, role in recent food price hikes and social environmental impacts.
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  Climate change and the fate of the Amazon.

  Royal Society, 2008

  This is a compilation of twenty seven articles focusing on the interactions, impacts and effects of the changing climate on the Amazon region. Each article examines a specific area, providing a multidisciplinary analysis of climate change impacts. Areas discussed include:
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  Gender, Environment, Conflict - Special Issue Newsletter, Civilian Crisis Prevention - Environment and Natural Resources 2008

  Environment Conflict and Cooperation, 2007

  The linkages between gender, environment and conflict have so far not been studied in detail. Environmental changes and conflicts impact men and women differently because of their gender roles and socio-cultural situation. More often than not, environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change or natural disasters reinforce existing gender inequalities.
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  Expert seminar: migration and the environment

  International Organization for Migration, 2008

  Environmental degradation, climate change and migration are not new to the global community. However, managing these phenomena has become both more challenging and more critical to ensuring human security and sustainable development.
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  Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to save civilization

  Earth Policy Institute, 2008

  This publication argues that the roots of the current environmental dilemmas lie in the enormous growth of the human enterprise over the last century. The author presents an alternative plan to save civilisation, which is ambitious not only in scale, but also in the speed with which it must be implemented.
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  Compensating for climate change: principles and lessons for equitable adaptation funding

  ActionAid International, 2007

  There are significant gaps between funds pledged and the needs of developing countries struggling to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Additionally, there has been insufficient attention to the question of which funding mechanisms are most appropriate for serving communities affected by climate change.

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