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    How to make cities more resilient: a handbook for local government leaders

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
    This handbook provides mayors, governors, councillors and other local government leaders with a generic framework for risk reduction and points to good practice and tools that are already being applied in different cities for that purpose. It discusses why building disaster resilience is beneficial; what kind of strategies and actions are required; and how to go about the task.
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    Climate Risk and Adaptation Country Profile: Vulnerability, Risk Reduction, and Adaptation to Climate Change

    World Bank, 2011
    This document includes the information available on line at the Climate Change Knowledege Portal of the World Bank (http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportalb/home.cfm?page=country_profile&CCode;=ECU). Includes snapshot information about the country, priority adaptation measures, climate baseline and trends, vulnerability assessment and sectoral recommendations.
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    Social protection and climate resilience

    World Bank, 2012
    Awareness of the experiences of greater integration in social protection (SP), climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) has significantly increased in recent years.
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    Africa human development report 2012: towards a food secure future

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity, such as crop failure, to highlight the social and political dimensions that are inhibiting progress.
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    Estrategia de microfinanzas para el manejo sostenible de la tierra y la adaptación  al  cambio climático en el Ecuador

    Global Mechanism, 2011
    El objetivo de esta estrategia es promover, con el apoyo financiero del sector de las microfinanzas, actividades que contribuyan a combatir la degradación de la tierra, la desertificación y promuevan la adaptación al cambio climático.
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    Tackling exposure: placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy

    Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
    2011 was, in economic terms, the costliest year on record for disasters. Economic exposure to disasters is increasing faster than per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and the impacts of climate change on the severity and frequency of hazards will accentuate existing trends in disaster losses in the future.
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    Children’s vulnerability to climate change and disaster impacts in East Asia and the Pacific

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2011
    In 2011, UNICEF commissioned field research in Indonesia, Kiribati, Mongolia, Philippines and Vanuatu to determine if there were noticeable patterns and trends of climate change and disaster impacts on children.
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    The state of Arab cities 2012: challenges of urban transition

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2012
    This regional report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) highlights that, although urban slums are decreasing and urban innovations are being introduced, the Arab region still faces major challenges, including high youth unemployment rates and climate change.
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    The Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC)

    Community forestry is widely acknowledged as a powerful solution for many of the challenges facing local people and the wider society, especially in improving rural livelihoods, enhancing community go
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    Climate change, environmental degradation and migration

    International Organization for Migration, 2012
    As part of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) annual 'International Dialogue on Migration', the topic 'Climate change, environmental degradation and migration' was selected as the focus of a workshop held in Geneva, Switzerland, in March 2011.

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