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    Planning climate resilient cities: Early lessons from early adapters

    World Bank Publications, 2009
    This paper presents climate adaptation strategies among the early adapters, using Durban, South Africa and Quito, Ecuador as case studies.
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    Urban Governance for Adaptation: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Ten Asian Cities

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    This paper highlights the vulnerability of cities to climate-related risks. More particularly, it focuses on the role that urban governments play in building climate resilient cities. The paper assesses the ability of ten Asian cities to plan and implement an integrated climate change resilience programmes.
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    The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

    Foresight UK, 2011
    The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.
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    The implications of climate change for health in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2010
    The interactions between health and climate change are clearly recognised; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change includes a chapter on health issues in all its publications. But we still need to better understand all the possible impacts of climate change on health.
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    Agricultural technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries: policy options for innovation and technology diffusion

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
    Climate Change exacerbates the already serious challenges facing the agricultural sector, particularly in developing countries. This paper highlights technological and institutional innovations required to meet these challenges and suggests ways to overcome the constraints to their development.
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    Climate change and China’s agricultural sector: an overview of impacts, adaptation and mitigation

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010
    This study projects the impacts of climate change on China’s agricultural sector under a scenario that assumes a heterogeneous world with continuous population growth and regionally-oriented economic growth. The paper state that the effect of climate changes on rural incomes in China is complicated, drawing the following findings:
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    Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

    Development Research Network, 2010
    This brief focuses on how disaster risk management approaches are taking longer term climate change perspectives. The intention is to highlight, through a series of case studies and research summaries, some best practice/management practices implemented in South Asia and offer recommendations for both practitioners and policy makers.
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    Deliberating on low carbon development

    Elsevier, 2010
    This paper presents issues that are driving the process of mainstreaming climate change into development plans. By recognising that there are variations in low carbon development (LCD), the paper maps out the diversity of understandings and interpretations with a range of possibilities that countries can consider.
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    Separate streams? Adapting water resources management to climate change

    Tearfund, 2008
    This report identifies how climate change adaptation can be integrated within the water sector to benefit the poor and vulnerable people. It draws on primary research at the community and national level using empirical evidence from Niger and North-East Brazil.
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    Co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies: literature review and new results

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    The paper assesses the extent to which local air pollution co-benefits can lower the cost of climate change mitigation policies in OECD and non-OECD countries and can offer economic incentives for developing countries to participate in a post- 2012 global agreement.

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