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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change, Climate Change Adaptation in Pakistan

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  Community vulnerability assessment: Kharo Chan, Keti Bunder and Jiwani

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2012

  This community vulnerability assessment (CVA) showcases the key threats facing the Indus Delta, focusing on the risks facing coastal communities living in Kharo Chan, Keti Bunder and Jiwani in Pakistan. Apart from identifying threats, the report lists response options, in order to support adaptation at the local, district and provincial levels.
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  A toolkit for integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia

  United Nations Development Programme, 2012

  This comprehensive toolkit, jointly produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Asia Pacific Secretariat, seeks to provide strategies for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia.
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  Transboundary landscape management framework for ecological and socioeconomic resilience

  2012

  Current land management approaches focus on achieving ecological resilience for natural resources and biological diversity, and socioeconomic resilience for the people who depend on the land for their livelihoods and wellbeing.
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  Role of policy and institutions in local adaptation to climate change: case studies on responses to too much and too little water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2012

  The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is predicted to be severely affected and socially vulnerable to climate change. This study delves into how political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustainable and equitable adaptation strategies to water-related stress and hazards in the context of climate change in India, Pakistan, Nepal and China.
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  Developing Countries' Trade Vulnerabilities to EU Climate Policies

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2011

  The European Union (EU) aims to take a lead in combating climate change and, as such, experiences a higher intensity of carbon leakage and competitiveness concerns. The EU is, however, an important export market for many developing countries, and BCAs implemented by the EU could therefore have a large impact on these countries.
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  Proposals for upcoming activities under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

  UNFCCC National Adaptation Programme of Action, 2011

  This document published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlines proposals for upcoming activities under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change from countries including Colombia, El Salvador and Pakistan. It is part of the provisional agenda for Durban, 28th November to 3rd December 2011.
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  Building climate resilience in South Asia

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012

  This publication outlines several projects run by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to improve resilience to climate change in South Asia, concentrating on 'Pakistan's post-flood reconstruction'.
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  Pakreport: Crowdsourcing for Multipurpose and Multicategory Climate related Disaster Reporting

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  This case study focuses on Pakreport, an ICT initiative between crisis mapping organisations, engineers, relief agencies and crowdsourcing companies that began in July 2010 as a response to the floods.
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  Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

  Development Research Network, 2010

  This brief focuses on how disaster risk management approaches are taking longer term climate change perspectives. The intention is to highlight, through a series of case studies and research summaries, some best practice/management practices implemented in South Asia and offer recommendations for both practitioners and policy makers.
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  Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010

  The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.  While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatel

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