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  Child focused disaster risk reduction

  Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2007

  This Handbook is a review on existing literature and case studies in India and Philippines which have a specific focus on integrating children in to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies and programmes. It is part of a course organised by Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre on how to successfully carry out community disaster risk reduction.
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  Impacts assessment and climate change adaptation strategies in Makawanpur District, Nepal

  ForestryNepal, 2008

  This research report assesses the impacts of climate change on agriculture, fresh water, biodiversity, and livelihood of the communities in the Makawanpur district of Nepal.
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  Transitioning to climate resilient development. Perspectives from communities in Peru

  World Bank Publications, 2008

  While the scientific capacity to forecast El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) extremes, this papers questions the extent to which these advances have benefited vulnerable communities by increasing their resilience to impeding El Niño events.
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  Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: closing the gap

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  There is significant overlap between the practice and theory of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. However, there is limited coherence and convergence in institutions, organisations and policy frameworks.
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  From grassroots to global: people centered disaster risk reduction

  ProVention Consortium, 2008

  In April 2008 a group of 170 partners met in Panama city to attend the forum ‘From Grassroots to Global: People-Centered Disaster Risk Reduction’. This document records the energy, ideas and views resulting from discussions and presentations in the formal sessions and also in the corridors of the event.
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  From risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008

  This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change through an analysis of case studies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The paper focuses on water related disasters and the manner in which they may change as a consequence of climate change.
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  Humanitarian implications of climate change. Mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots

  Reliefweb, 2008

  This study identifies the most likely humanitarian implications of climate change for the next 20-30 year period. The authors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map specific hazards associated with climate change – specifically: floods, cyclones and droughts – and place them in relation to factors influencing vulnerability.
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  Gender perspectives: integrating disaster risk reduction into climate change adaptation good practices and lessons learned

  United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2008

  It is a well-known prediction that women in the developing world will suffer the most from the effects of climate change. What needs equal emphasis is the fact that women also represent an immense source of potential and power to combat the increased disaster risks that climate change will bring.
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  Climate resilient cities. A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening disaster risk management in East Asian cities

  World Bank, 2008

  This primer is a guide for local governments in East Asia to help them understand the concepts and consequences of climate change and how climate change consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities.
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  In the face of disaster: children and climate change

  International Save the Children Alliance, 2008

  Climate change is likely to lead to an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and it will be the people in the poorest countries, especially children, who will bear the brunt.

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