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    Media perceptions and portrayals of pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013
    Through the analysis of newspaper articles and a survey of journalists, this publication identifies gaps and highlights differences in how the media portray pastoralism in Kenya, China and India.
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    Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    Disasters can hamper economic growth, affect poverty levels and cause human suffering. This paper argues that including measures to promote disaster risk management (DRM) in the post-2015 development goals is needed to incentivise investment in advance of shocks to protect lives and livelihoods, but also to save money.
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    Small Island Economies: from vulnerabilities to opportunities - a reader

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2012
    Small Island Developing States (SIDS)  face a greater risk of marginalisation from the global economy than many other developing countries as a result of their small size, remoteness from large markets, and high economic vulnerability to economic and natural shocks beyond domestic control.
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    Addressing climate change and migration in Asia and the Pacific: final report

    Asian Development Bank, 2012
    Asia and the Pacific is the global area most prone to natural disasters, both in terms of the absolute number of disasters and of populations affected. This report aims to identify policy and other responses to impacts of environment events on human mobility within the Asia and Pacific region.
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    Disaster risk management in south Asia: a regional overview

    World Bank, 2012
    The number of disasters per year has quadrupled over the past four decades in the South Asia Region (SAR), resulting in damages of over US$25 billion in the past five years alone. However, exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards and their consequential impacts are not yet at the forefront of development agendas.
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    Sustainable wetland management in the face of climate risks in Niger: the case of La Mare de Tabalak

    United Nations Development Programme, 2013
    The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) recently implemented climate risk management studies in seven countries.
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    Climate risks, vulnerability and governance in Kenya: a review

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    This report was commissioned under the Climate Risk Management Technical Assistance Support Project (CRM TASP), a joint initiative of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery and the Bureau for Development Policy of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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    The demography of adaptation to climate change

    United Nations Population Fund, 2013
    In 2010, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and El Colegio de Mexico hosted an expert group meeting in Mexico to discuss aspects of population dynamics with particular focus on adaptation to climate change.
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    Stories of change from the joint UNDP-UNEP poverty-environment initiative

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
    This booklet, prepared by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on behalf of the UNDP-UNEP poverty-environment initiative (PEI), captures experiences of various stakeholders ranging from the government level to vulnerable groups in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Malawi, Bangladesh, Tajikistan and Uruguay.
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    Rural households in a changing climate

    World Bank, 2013
    This World Bank policy research working paper investigates household-level strategies for adapting to climate change in rural settings, looking particularly at the adaptive capacity of poor rural households – a subject the authors claim has received little attention due to its broad and complex nature.

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