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    Disaster preparedness for natural hazards: current status in Pakistan

    2007
    This book provides an overview of the current status of disaster preparedness planning in Pakistan. It discusses the documents, plans and legal instruments in place and the institutions governing the implementation of disaster preparedness. Although Pakistan faces a number of natural disasters, the book focuses specifically floods, earthquakes, and landslides. 
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    Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.
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    Young people's forum: Disasters and the aftermath: building young people’s life skills for health and education: country consultations summary report

    UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, 2007
    Young people in Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand have been confronted in the past few years with a series of disasters of tremendous proportions. This paper reports on a regional forum on Disasters and the Aftermath held in Bangkok from April 30 - May 5, which aimed to engage young people from these three countries as active participants in dealing with future disasters.
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    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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    Reforestation and control of landslides in Macacos Hill, a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    South South North, 2006
    The focus of the project is on increasing the resistance of the physical environment to landslide activity; and building capacity of the community to decrease their vulnerability to landslides when they do occur. Project activities will include: 1. Identifying critical points of erosion and deforestation in Macacos Hill;
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    Water demand initiative - WaDImena

    International Development Research Centre, 2000
    With the lowest volume of annual renewable water resources and of water resources per capita, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most water-scarce region in the world.
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    Adaptive policymaking for agriculture and water resources

    International Development Research Centre, 2005
    In 2005, IDRC provided CA $1,000,000 to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to support a four-year research collaboration with TERI of India. These institutes will study the adaptation of agricultural communities that have experienced environmental change in the last two decades.
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    Sustainable management of common natural resources in Mongolia (Ph III)

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    Communities have coped for millennia through extremes of flood and drought by cooperatively managing shared natural resources, and by cultivating a variety of robust, indigenous crop types that can survive a range of conditions. Knowledge and use of diverse plant types - either planted or foraged - could be key to survival as climate extremes widen.
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    Inuit observations on climate change

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2001
    The Inuit residents of Sachs Harbour, Canada, are struggling to maintain their way of life in the face of climate change. Their lifestyle and culture depends on their ability to adapt to this new challenge.
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    CENTRO CLIMA / Centre for Integrated Studies on Climate Change and the Environment

    The centre specializes in the research and development of projects and scientific studies in the fields of Climate Change and the Environment, to support the institutional capacity building,

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