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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change, Livelihoods conflict and disasters, Livelihoods, Climate change poverty and vulnerability

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  Climate change and displacement

  Forced Migration Review, 2008

  In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges of this century.
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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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  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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  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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  Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
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  Livelihoods and climate change: combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management and climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2003

  This paper discusses a variety of issues surrounding livelihoods and climate change. Highlights of the paper include:

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