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  Bundelkhand drought: a retrospective analysis and way ahead

  National Institute of Disaster Management, 2014

  This study attempts to identify the areas prone to different types of drought - meteorological, hydrological and agricultural droughts. The report presents a scientific analysis of the spatial, temporal and typological distribution of drought at district level for the period during 1998-2009 in the region of Bundelkhand.
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  The Solar Energy Centre: an approach to village scale power supply . The Solar Transition pilot project in Kenya

  University of Oslo, 2014

  Access to electricity has a positive impact on a wide range of factors influencing rural communities, from improved health, to access to communication and information, to better educational facilities, economic prosperity and improved standard of living.
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  Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans: Lessons from Sri Lanka

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014

  This case study aims to illustrate how the Western Province in Sri Lanka is promoting urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry as a strategy to reduce vulnerability to climate change, while at the same time enhancing urban liveability and livelihoods.
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  Impact assessment of rural electrification

  2013

  Norway has for many years supported Mozambique’s efforts to increase the level of access to electricity  in rural areas.
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  Sustainable mega-events in developing countries: experiences and insights from host cities in South Africa, India and Brazil

  Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2011

  The hosting of mega-events has a tremendous effect on developing and emerging countries. These can be positive in terms of economic investment, job creation, skills development and international branding but also can be negative in terms of their environmental footprint, for example via carbon emissions caused by international visitors to the event.
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  Economic impact assessment of climate change in key sectors in Nepal (2014)

  Integrated Development Society, 2014

  This study provides estimates of the impacts and economic costs of climate change for key risks in Nepal.
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  Rapid desk-based study: donor and partner programmes in sustainable forest management and fuelwood value chains in Eastern and Southern Africa

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  Forests and trees are the source of a myriad of products, services and functions (including income) for many people living in urban and peri-urban areas, as well as for rural communities, which earn their living by responding to urban demand.
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  Food, water, and energy security in South Asia: a nexus perspective from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region

  Science Direct, 2014

  With limited land resources, inadequate energy supply, and growing water stress, South Asia faces the challenge of providing enough water and energy to grow enough food for the burgeoning population.
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  How to scale out community-based adaptation to climate change

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014

  This working paper explores the ‘scaling out’ of community-based adaptation (CBA) pilots, which is defined as ‘more quality benefits to more people over a wider geographical area, more equitably, more quickly, and more lastingly’.
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  United Nations World Water Development Report 2014: Water and Energy, Volume 1

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2014

  This report provides an overview of major and emerging trends from around the world, with examples of how some of the trend-related challenges have been addressed, their implications for policy-makers, and further actions that can be taken by stakeholders and the international community. It argues that water and energy are closely interconnected and highly interdependent.

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