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  Vulnerability through the eyes of vulnerable: climate change induced uncertainties and Nepal's development predicaments

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2009

  In its fourth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) depicts the Hindukush-Himalaya, including Nepal, as a “white spot,” a region about which scientific information on climate change is limited or lacking altogether.
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  From risk to resilience: moving from concepts to practice

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2008

  The role of disasters in building and maintaining the cycle of poverty and undermining development progress is increasingly recognized as a major global challenge.
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  From risk to resilience: costs and benefits of flood mitigation in the Lower Bagmati Basin: case of Nepal Tarai and North Bihar

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2008

  In the northern Ganga plains floods are common and constitute a major cause of the poverty endemic to the region. The largest investment governments have made in response to the risk of flooding has been in structural measures such as embankments and spurs. The relative costs and benefits of building embankments are widely debated but have never been systematically evaluated.
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  Re-imagining the rural-urban continuum: understanding the role ecosystem services play in the livelihoods of the poor in Desakota Regions undergoing rapid change

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2008

  In many parts of the world the relationship between ecosystems and livelihoods is changing.  The changing economic systems across the urban-rural sectors are creating what we call mixed-economic “desakota” systems.
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  Poverty environment nexus: an investigation of linkage and policy implications

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008

  There is a clear connection between environment and poverty and it can hardly be over emphasised. The more visible environmental problems are mostly seen in the case of exhaustive resources which are in constant danger of depletion from excessive use, particularly in a developing country such as Bangladesh.
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  China’s carbon emissions from urban and rural households during 1992 - 2007

  Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2011

  In China, rapid economic growth has stimulated fast urban expansion and rural household income and consumption expenditure. In current paper, an input-output method is used to determine the impact of China’s increased urban and rural household consumption on carbon emissions.
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  What does the IPCC say about Bangladesh?

  International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2014

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific body established to provide a scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its impacts. The IPCC was first established in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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  Resilience to extreme weather

  Royal Society, 2014

  This report investigates questions such as: How do we reduce the impact of extreme weather today while preparing ourselves for future changes? What can we do to build our resilience? It aims to help inform important decisions about adaptation and risk reduction that are being made at global, national and local levels.
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  Viet Nam Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation: Summary for Policy Makers

  Vietnam UNDP Office, 2015

  This Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) gives the main findings of the Viet Nam Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (“SREX Viet Nam”).
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  World Development Report 2015: mind, society, and behavior

  World Bank, 2015

  This report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.

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