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Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels
World Bank, 2009This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.DocumentResilience and sustainable development: building adaptive capacity in a world of transformations
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2002This paper is a synthesis of the rapidly-changing field of resilience research and argues that humanity has powerful interactions with biogeochemical, hydrological and ecological processes, from local to global scales. It argues that the complexity of social-ecological systems makes it necessary to abandon the perception of a global steady state.DocumentLinking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management for sustainable poverty reduction. Synthesis report
European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006This report presents a cross-cutting summary of country study findings and workshop deliberations on linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk management for sustainable poverty reduction. It uses examples from Mexico, Kenya and Vietnam to provide insights into how a more integrated approach to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation can be built.DocumentDisaster Risk Reduction Strategies and Risk Management Practices: critical elements for adaptation to climate change
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2008This paper presents the risk-related elements referred to in the Bali Action Plan, namely disaster reduction strategies and risk management including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms.DocumentDisaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific: the challenge of integration
University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australian Tsunami Research Centre & Natural Hazards Research Laboratory (ATRC-NHRL), 2010This paper presents the integration of DRR and CCA initiatives in the pacific community, and draws upon the knowledge and insight of key stakeholders from multiple backgrounds to develop an understanding of the current status of DRR and CCA in the region.DocumentThe determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation
University of East Anglia, 2005This paper presents a set of indicators of vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate variability using a novel methodology for assessing vulnerability to climate-related mortality. The indicators are based on empirical analysis of data aggregated at the national level on a decadal timescale.DocumentThe National Adaptive Capacity framework. Key institutional functions for a changing climate
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2009The paper discusses the National Adaptive Capacity Framework (NAC). It indicates that under the NAC approach, adaptation is treated as an organic process - one which inevitably will grow and evolve in unexpected ways, since every country has a unique set of actors who play different roles in adaptation.DocumentPolicy arena disaster risk reduction or climate change adaptation: are we reinventing the wheel?
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2010This paper explores the differences and similarities between Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) through analysing climate-related DRR in Papua New Guinea (PNG) within the context of wider development policies. It notes that more similarities than differences exist between CCA and DRR, but DRR presents advantages for development policy and practice that CCA does not.DocumentClimate change and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
African Economic Research Consortium, 2008This paper is the outcome of a seminar about the impacts of climate change on development and economic growth, as well as food security and trade in sub-Saharan Africa. The seminar aimed at identifying the economic policy issues underlying the problem and suggesting the relevant solutions.DocumentDisaster Risk Reduction, climate change adaptation and human security. A commissioned report for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008The relationship between climate change and security is a key concern among governments and international organisations. Security concerns include the potential for conflict over natural resources, population displacement, migration, and humanitarian disasters due to extreme climatic events.Pages