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  Social vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods and disasters

  Benfield Hazard Research Centre, 2004

  In 1997 the UK Department for International Development (DFID) adopted the priorities of the White Paper on International Development recognising the significance of socio-economic factors in making individuals vulnerable to disaster.
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  Climate change vulnerability assessments: an evolution of conceptual thinking

  Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 2002

  Climate change vulnerability assessments are performed for numerous purposes, with each purpose having particular information needs, and so this requires a particular assessment method to provide this information.
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  A short historical overview of the concepts of resilience, vulnerability and adaptation

  Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005

  This short working paper identifies trends and historical meaning behind three concepts of resilience, adaptation and vulnerability used extensively within the field of global environmental change, and it's associated human dimensions.It is concluded that despite a wide range of uses of each concept, in a variety of contexts, in recent times there has been a significant cross-referencing betwee
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  Minimising the impact of HIV/AIDS on farming households

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The HIV/AIDS pandemic is threatening agricultural development in the poorest areas of the world. HIV/AIDS affects more than the health of individuals: it undermines household economies, pushing entire rural communities towards poverty. These communities need urgent action to protect the hard-won achievements in reducing rural poverty and stimulating agricultural growth.
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  Application of methods and tools for assessing impacts and vulnerability, and developing adaptation responses

  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2004

  The purpose of this paper was to facilitate discussion at a workshop on adaptation in December 2004 but it presents an appropriate and current summary of approaches to methodologies, tools and vulnerability studies.The paper covers two overall areas for consideration, focusing on analysis and synthesis of current applications; approaches, methods and tools, and scenario-based studies and region
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  Climate change risk and vulnerability: promoting an efficient adaptation response in Australia

  Australian Greenhouse Office, Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2005

  Potential effects of climate change on Australia have been identified through climate models, and these include more frequent ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) events, more heatwaves and fewer frosts, reductions in average rainfall and more severe wind speeds in cyclones.The Australian Government have decided to fund the development of an adaptation strategy but this will require a period of
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  Public spending, pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Tunisia: a multilevel analysis

  Social Science Research Network, 2005

  This paper aims to assess to what extent public spending contributes to enhanced economic growth and poverty reduction in Tunisia. The authors use a multilevel analysis approach to capture the likely effects of some public expenditure on pro-poor growth.
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  Social protection and social welfare: African perspective

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This presentation, made at a UNICEF conference, highlights critical issues in the intersections between rising HIV prevalence in Africa and growing interest in providing social protection, to fill the gaps where national social welfare programmes should be.
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  Mainstreaming children into national poverty strategies: a child-focused analysis of the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programe (2002-05)

  Young Lives, 2005

  This paper assesses how the needs of children are incorporated into Ethiopia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), known as the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programme 2002-2005 (SDRDP), and to develop policy recommendations for the second PRSP based on a comparative content analysis with other countries’ PRSPs.The paper identifies key components of a child-centre
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  The formation of risk sharing networks

  Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2005

  This paper examines the endogenous formation of risk sharing networks in the rural Philippines. The authors aim to show that geographic proximity is a major determinant of interpersonal relationships, and find little evidence that people form relationships to pool income risk.

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