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Micro insurance for local adaptation
Wiley Online Library, 2010Insurance instruments that provide economic security against droughts, floods, tropical cyclones and other weather extremes have emerged as an opportunity for developing countries to reduce their vulnerability to weather variability and adapt to climate change.DocumentRegional Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Settings: From Theory to Practice
PreventionWeb, 2011The global concerns in regards to climate change, and hydro-meteorological disasters has risen, among other reasons, due to devastating consequences over massive floods around he world over the past few years, particularly in Asia and Latin America.DocumentKoh Phi Phi: Moving Towards or Away from Sustainability?
2012This article examines tourism development and sustainability, and whether this idea can truly exist in practice. Using the Theory of the Commons and Stakeholder Theory as a starting point, it examines whether sustainable tourism is a true concept that can exist among stakeholders.DocumentFeeling Stressed: Integrating Climate Adaptation with Other Priotities in South Africa
2012In response to the growing concern over the expected effects of climate change, a growing number of people are exploring how communities have and might respond to climate as one of a number of interacting stresses.DocumentMaking Rio 2012 Work: Setting the Stage for Global Economic, Social and Ecological Renewal
Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2011The world faces old and new security challenges that are more complex than our multilateral and national institutions are currently capable of managing.DocumentHaiti: ‘a gathering storm’ - climate change and poverty
Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2009This report gives an insight into how poor people are experiencing climate change in Haiti, already one of the poorest countries in the world, and what challenges they are currently facing, and will continue to face in the future.DocumentPakreport: Crowdsourcing for Multipurpose and Multicategory Climate related Disaster Reporting
Centre for Development Informatics, 2011This case study focuses on Pakreport, an ICT initiative between crisis mapping organisations, engineers, relief agencies and crowdsourcing companies that began in July 2010 as a response to the floods.DocumentRole of ICTs in Early Warning of Climate Related Disasters: A Sri Lankan Case Study
Centre for Development Informatics, 2011Climate change is now increasing – and will further increase in future – both the frequency and intensity of natural disasters in Sri Lanka including cyclones, floods and landslides (MoE 2010).DocumentUsing Mobile Phones to Reduce the Adversities of Climate Change in Rural Nepal
Centre for Development Informatics, 2011The initiative described in this case is part of a disaster risk reduction project implemented by Practical Action in Nepal, financially supported by the UK's Department for International Development.