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  The state of environmental migration 2014: a review of 2013

  International Organization for Migration, 2014

  This report, part of an annual series, aims to enhance understanding of natural disasters, sudden natural onset events and slow onset events, and their links to human mobility. The publication is not only focused on 2013 events but also considers the longer-term impacts of a natural event on migration, as they can be assessed with the state of knowledge existing in 2013.
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  Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: evidence from two sites in Bangladesh

  International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2014

  Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (EbA) involve the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Those who are most vulnerable to climate change are often highly reliant on the natural environment for their lives and livelihoods, and ecosystems and the services they provide are already central to many adaptation strategies.
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  Resource manual on flash flood risk management – Module 3: Structural measures

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

  This publication, the third module of a resource manual to support the training of planners and practitioners in managing flash flood risk, deals with structural measures. It presents bioengineering techniques, physical measures for slope stabilisation and erosion control, and physical measures for river training.
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  Disaster risk reduction in Dhaka City: frrom urban landscape analysis to opportunities for DRR integration

  International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2012

  The geographical location of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal leaves the country susceptible to significant climate change impacts that exacerbate environmental hazards. In the urban context, disasters and hazards are posed by flood and waterlogging, earthquakes and fires.
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  Implications of the regulatory landscape for the restoration of natural capital

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012

  The principle that a person or the organisation responsible for pollution or environmental degradation needs to pay for the restoration of the affected ecosystem has been established in South African legislation by the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) Act and applied in a number of other Acts.
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  Socioeconomic backwardness increases vulnerability to climate change: evidence from Uttar Pradesh

  Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014

  The global average surface temperature over the past 50 years has increased at nearly double the rate of the past 100 years. Although warming is greatest at the higher northern latitudes, it has been widespread worldwide over the past 30 years.
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  Setting, measuring and monitoring targets for reducing disaster risk: Recommendations for post-2015 international policy frameworks

  Overseas Development Institute, 2014

  Based on disaster risk data sets and further evidence from recent history, this report highlights what this agreed approach could look like, what the challenges may be, and offers ten proposals for this global monitoring framework on disaster risk reduction (DRR).  The report argues that, with disaster risk continuing to increase in many regions, action is needed to reverse the trend.
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  The environment-poverty nexus: an institutional analysis

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2000

  While there are clearly hypothesized links between poverty and degradation, attempts to demonstrate such links empirically have yielded mixed results. This paper aims at determining the nature, causes and impacts of poverty in Pakistan.
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  Topic guide: conflict, climate and environment

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  This Topic Guide outlines the importance and complexity of the links between conflict, climate and environment. The Topic Guide focuses on violent conflict at the sub-national, national and trans-boundary level in relation to natural resources, climate variability, climate change and environmental change. Key messages are outlined as:
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  Climate change adaptation: improving environment through reduction in wood cutting and remission in greenhouse gases with introduction and promotion of energy efficient technologies - district Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013

  The natural disaster and conflict have brought changes in the physical, chemical and biological character of environment across the globe. Pakistan is one of the worst victims facing effects of climate change in spite of the factual situation that it does not account for generating as well as expanding this global problem.

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