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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change, Climate change poverty and vulnerability, Disaster risk reduction

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  Effects and outcomes of Caribbean hurricanes in a climate change scenario

  USDA Forest Service International Programs: Global Leaflet, 2000

  Uncertainty remains as to whether or not climate change will precipitate more frequent and severe hurricanes.
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  Vulnerability, risk management and adaptation: responding to climate change challenges in the Commonwealth Caribbean

  Commonwealth Association of Planners, 2008

  This report seeks to address the dilemma facing stakeholders in the Caribbean region of how to create more liveable, economically and ecologically sustainable human settlements in highly climatic hazard prone areas given the existing financial constraints, coupled with the inadequate legal, institutional and technical capacity within the region.
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  Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

  United Nations Development Programme, 2011

  This Human Development Report 2011 explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity, and shows that these are critical to expanding human freedoms for people today and in generations to come.
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  Paving the Way for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Guidance for Practitioners and Planners

  United Nations Development Programme, 2011

  In many developing countries, evolving infrastructure can be particularly climate-sensitive and therefore highly vulnerable to the destruction that occurs due to natural disasters.
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  Climate Economics: The State of the Art

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2011

  Economic analysis has become increasingly central to the climate policy debate, but the models and assumptions of climate economics often lag far behind the latest developments in this fast-moving field. This report aims to correct this problem and identify areas where substantially more research must be done.
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  Adaptation to Climate Change for Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya: Community-Based Perspectives from Five Districts

  AfricaAdapt, 2010

  This study is part of a project on Adaptation to Climate Change of Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya which aims to support policymakers’ efforts to promote adaptation to climate change by determining where major hotspots of vulnerability are located, identifying farm- and community-level adaptation strategies, assessing the factors which influence adoption of adaptation practices, as well as farmer
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  Micro insurance for local adaptation

  Wiley Online Library, 2010

  Insurance instruments that provide economic security against droughts, floods, tropical cyclones and other weather extremes have emerged as an opportunity for developing countries to reduce their vulnerability to weather variability and adapt to climate change.
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  Disaster management and climate change: India policy frameworks and responses

  Centre for Social Markets, India, 2011

  For decades disaster management in India remained an issue of providing relief and rehabilitation assistance to people affected by natural disasters. Successive disasters and global movements for disaster reduction since the nineties have triggered a paradigm shift in disaster management leading to the creation of new legal and institutional frameworks for disaster management in India.
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  Adaptation to climate change and managing disaster risk in the Caribbean and South-East Asia

  Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency, Barbados, 2003

  This report is an of the outcome of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados in July of 2003. Presentations made at the seminar were based on six case studies carried out in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
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  Regional Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Settings: From Theory to Practice

  PreventionWeb, 2011

  The global concerns in regards to climate change, and hydro-meteorological disasters has risen, among other reasons, due to devastating consequences over massive floods around he world over the past few years, particularly in Asia and Latin America.

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