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    Alleviating poverty through indirect climate change adaptation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Adapting to climate change is vital for all countries, especially those in developing regions. However, the priority for many people in poor countries is escaping from poverty and maintaining their livelihoods, rather than adapting to climate change.
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    Gender sensitive disaster management: a toolkit for practitioners

    Earthworm Books, 2008
    The risks and vulnerabilities that people face from natural disasters are as much a product of their social situation as their physical environment. Vulnerabilities and capacities of individuals and social groups evolve over time and determine people’s abilities to cope with disaster and recover from it.
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    Child voices: children of Nepal speak out on climate change adaptation

    Children in a Changing Climate, 2008
    In 2008 Children in a Changing Climate’s research programme worked with ActionAid Nepal, and its partner organisations, to help poor children in the plains, hills and urban areas of Nepal make short films about how climate change is being experienced by their communities.
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    Children in a Changing Climate (CCC)

    Children in a Changing Climate is a global collaborative action-research, advocacy and learning programme that aims to secure children's influence in preventing and adapting to climate change at every
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    Microfinance and climate change adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    This paper talks about possibilities of using microfinance as a coping strategy or tool for reducing peoples’ vulnerability to climate change. In doing so, the paper identifies possible links between microfinance services and climate adaptation and highlights the opportunities and the risks for reducing vulnerability among the world’s poorest populations.
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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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    Closing the gap between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There is significant overlap between the practice and theory of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. However, there is limited coherence and convergence in institutions, organisations and policy frameworks.
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    Pastoralists need access to resources to adapt to climate change

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Climate change will affect different groups in different ways. While many researchers predict that pastoralist groups could be the first to lose their livelihoods due to climate change, they could also be the best equipped to adapt. To respond effectively, they need access to strategic resources, particularly rangelands.
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    Linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction communities have many similar aims and could benefit each other. But so far they have largely operated in isolation from each other. This situation must change to bring about a comprehensive risk management approach that can tackle global climate change.
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    Many strong voices: outline for an assessment project design

    Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2008
    This document defines, guides, and supports the development and implementation of a full assessment of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), under the Many Strong Voices (MSV) programme.

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