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    Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh

    International Water Management Institute, 2012
    This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. We examine the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and farming practice changes. These households are coping with huge demographic, economic, and environmental changes.
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    Energy, development and climate change: Striking a balance

    Watershed Organisation Trust, 2014
    This report focuses on rural energy needs in India, in particular energy for subsistence for livelihoods, mobility or infrastructure. It argues that in charting out a developmental pathway which is ecologically sustainable, India has a wider spectrum of choices precisely because it is at an early stage of development.
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    Preventing and resolving future climate and natural resource-related conflicts in the Zambezi Basin: a Study of Bulawayo and Chinde Districts

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Long-term changes in climate are likely to increase a range of risks to human security, including the risk of violent conflict. The city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, and Chinde district in the Zambezia province of Mozambique have been identified as areas that are highly susceptible to future climate-induced conflicts.
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    Seeing the wood for the trees: forestry governance in the DRC

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    This case study on forestry governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forms part of a three-year project entitled Strengthening the Governance of Africa’s Natural Resources, conducted by the Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme (GARP) of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).
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    Technical Paper: The risk of disaster-induced displacement. Central America and the Caribbian

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2013
    This technical paper provides evidence-based estimates of the likelihood of disaster-induced displacement in Central American and selected Caribbean states – Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama. It represents a first attempt to better quantify human displacement risk.
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    Technical paper: The risk of disaster-induced displacement in the Pacific island states

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014
    This technical paper represents an initial attempt to assess the risk of disaster-induced displacement in 21 island states in the South Pacific.
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    Pursuing a green economy: growth alongside environmental sustainability in Latin America

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2014
    Latin American countries have been implementing some innovative market incentives to catalyse the expansion of the green economy, in particular in relation to natural resource conservation and development of greener energy and infrastructure. This Guide explores these experiences to identify useful lessons for other regions of the world.
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    Adapting to climate change: Long term effects of drought on local labor markets

    Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2013
    This paper examines the long term effects of drought on local labour markets. Using rainfall data going back over a century, the researchers attempt to build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3000 local areas in Brazil, and examine them in conjunction with five waves of population census data spanning the 1970-2010 period.
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    Desertification: the invisible frontline

    Convention to Combat Desertification, 2014
    This publication examines desertification as a cause of global conflict and instability and calls for urgent action to support communities in crisis. It argues that the effects of desertification are increasingly felt globally as victims turn into refugees, internally displaced people and forced migrants or they turn to radicalisation, extremism or resource-driven wars for survival.
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    City-level climate change mitigation and adaptation

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Latin American cities are under increasing pressure from rapid urbanisation, while current impacts and potential threats from climate change are further exposing municipal vulnerabilities. City planners are responding to these twin pressures with innovations in climate-related policies and are making big strides in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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