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    Adapting to climate change in the water sector

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summarises of some of the adaptive strategies, targeting both supply and demand of water, being employed across various sectors in the developing world and offers suggestions going forward.
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    Vulnerability of arid and semi-arid regions to climate change: impacts and adaptive strategies

    2009
    This perspective document, part of the 16-paper series on water and climate change adaptation, focuses on the impacts and adaptive strategies in arid and semi-arid regions. The series reflect the central topic of the 5th World Water Forum, ‘climate change and adaptation’, where it was presented and discussed.
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    Climate change and development links

    Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED, 2006
    Part of the Gatekeeper Series produced by the Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme at IIED, this paper charts the evolution of climate change and development study and shows why the two fields have, until recently, remained largely independent.
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    Conservación Internacional Colombia

    Conservation International (CI) in Colombia works to protect the country’s most valuable, threatened, and productive places, all with an eye toward protecting threatened species while ensuring
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    Climate variability and change in the Himalayas: Community perceptions and responses

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    This study, published by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, investigates how climate and socio-economic change is affecting the livelihoods of the mountain peoples of the Himalayas.
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    The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

    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 stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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    Sustainable livelihoods approaches: past, present and...future?

    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?
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    Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.  While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatel
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    Climate change and social protection in Cambodia: linkages and synergies

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
    Because of its low adaptive capacity, Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate change events, particularly as the social protection system in Cambodia is still under development.
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    Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

    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 livelihoods (LH) approaches can play an important role in terms of climate adaptive capacity.

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