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    Measuring disaster-resilient communities: a case study of coastal communities in Indonesia

    Forestry Nepal, 2012
    Although there are fundamental linkages, and complementarities exist, between vulnerability reduction and resilience building of communities, recent policy and programming has focused more on the latter. This paper argues that reducing the underlying causes of vulnerabilities and their interactions with resilience elements is a prerequisite for obtaining resilience capabilities.
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    From vulnerability to resilience: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) in Niger

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2011
    For decades, Nigerien farmers cleared their fields of native trees and shrubs, exposing their crops to the fierce Sahelian winds. However, the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), in combination with other improved soil and water conservation practices, has helped to reverse this trend.
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    Adaptation or manipulation? Unpacking climate change response strategies

    Ecology and Society, 2012
    Adaptation is a key feature of sustainable social-ecological systems, as well as a recent and increasing focus of research and policy regarding responses to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. This article examines the meaning of adaptation and its relationship to the concepts of resilience, vulnerability and sustainability.
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    City resilience in Africa: a ten essentials pilot

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
    This study reports on a month-long pilot project conducted in three east African cities (Narok and Kisumu in Kenya, and Moshi in Tanzania) to assess resilience and disaster risk reduction (DRR). The pilot is modelled on the ‘ten essentials’ framework, a check-list of priorities and capabilities necessary for DRR.
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    Adaptation to a changing climate in the Arab countries: a case for adaptation governance and leadership in building climate resilience

    World Bank, 2012
    The Arab people have been adapting to climate change for thousands of years, but over the next century global climatic variability is predicted to increase unprecedentedly. This report assesses the potential effects of climate change on the Arab region and outlines possible approaches and measures to prepare for its consequences.
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    Local perceptions and responses to climate change and variability: the case of Laikipia district, Kenya

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012
    This empirical analysis of smallholders' perceptions of, and adaptation to, climate change demonstrates the value and importance of local knowledge in the Laikipia district, Kenya. The paper recognises that agricultural policies are presently short of mechanisms to promote farmers' adaptation, and that this has hindered agricultural production.
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    Turn down the heat: why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided

    World Bank, 2012
    This report, produced for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, attempts to describe what climate change impacts are likely to be felt in a ‘4°C world', i.e. a world where global average temperatures have risen four degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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    Translating famine early warning into early action: an east Africa case study

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
    This paper considers the political contexts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, how these affected the response to the 2011 Horn of Africa emergency, and the implications for future response. Although the Horn of Africa is often seen as a security-challenged region, for good reason, the level of insecurity varies significantly between and within countries.
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    Alternative pathways to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction: mainstreaming and integration in development planning and budgeting of local government units

    AIT-UNEP Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific, 2012
    This toolkit is an output of the Adaptation Knowledge Platform’s (AKP) capacity building activities in the Philippines.
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    Pacific environment and climate change outlook

    Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2012
    Livelihoods of some ten million people living in the Pacific island communities are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, according to this report. Low-lying islands in particular could face projected losses of up to 18 per cent of GDP due to climate change.

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