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    Close to home: subnational strategies for climate compatible development

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014
    This working paper explores successful strategies and measures for climate resilience and low carbon development that communities and leaders have pursued at the subnational level, drawing on the practical experiences of the Climate & Development Knowledge Network’s project partners and the broader ICLEI network.
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    What does it take to mainstream disaster risk management in key sectors?

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014
    With climate-related disasters becoming more frequent, and given that the amount of emissions already produced will continue to impact the world in this regard for many decades, it is crucial that governments prepare and ensure that disaster risk management (DRM) is robust.
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    Impact of Chars Livelihoods Programme on the disaster resilience of Chars communities

    Chars Livelihoods Programme, 2014
    The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in North West Bangladesh. It aims to improve the livelihoods, incomes and food security of at least one million poor and vulnerable women, children and men living on the chars.
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    Natural Disasters in the Middle East and North Africa: A Regional Overview

    World Bank, 2014
    This report profiles a regional profile of natural Disasters in the Middle East and North Africa (MNA), including a focus on climate related hazards. It tracks progress on disaster risk management at the regional and national levels and looks at remaining challenges. It also explores World Bank Disaster Risk Management Programming in the MNA Region and proposes a way forward.
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    Changing to biofuel crops makes productive use of contaminated water.

    2011
    Ten years ago, Thai epidemiologists noticed unusual clusters of kidney disease among elderly people around the town of Mae Sot. Heavy metal poisoning was suspected. A research team, including scientists from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), demonstrated that an irrigation system dissecting an area rich in minerals was contaminating local rice.
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    Mapping drought patterns and impacts: a global perspective.

    International Water Management Institute, 2009
    The study examines the global pattern and impacts of droughts through mapping several drought-related characteristics - either at a country level or at regular grid scales. It appears that arid and semi-arid areas also tend to have a higher probability of drought occurrence.
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    Community-led disaster risk reduction in Mongu, Zambia: Project effectiveness review

    Oxfam, 2014
    This technical paper focuses on Zambia’s ‘Community-Led Disaster Risk Reduction’ project which was randomly selected for an Effectiveness Review under the adaptation and risk reduction thematic area.
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    How should the new international disaster risk framework address gender equality?

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014
    This policy brief, published in time for International Women’s Day 2014, argues that hazards affect men and women, and boys and girls, differently and that attention needs to be paid to distinct vulnerabilities and capacities to face and recover from loss and damage caused by disasters.
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    Climate and disaster resilience: The role for community-driven development

    World Bank, 2014
    This paper examines the World Bank’s Community-Driven Development (CDD) portfolio to explore the potential for building the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate and disaster risk through CDD programs.
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    CLUP resource book: Integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction & management

    2013
    This publication provides practical information on mainstreaming climate change and disaster risk reduction in the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) process. Key concepts and frameworks are discussed as well a focus on planning risks.

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