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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change, Climate Change Adaptation in Pakistan

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  From risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008

  This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change through an analysis of case studies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The paper focuses on water related disasters and the manner in which they may change as a consequence of climate change.
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  Disaster preparedness for natural hazards: current status in Pakistan

  2007

  This book provides an overview of the current status of disaster preparedness planning in Pakistan. It discusses the documents, plans and legal instruments in place and the institutions governing the implementation of disaster preparedness. Although Pakistan faces a number of natural disasters, the book focuses specifically floods, earthquakes, and landslides. 
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  Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.
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  Young people's forum: Disasters and the aftermath: building young people’s life skills for health and education: country consultations summary report

  UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, 2007

  Young people in Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand have been confronted in the past few years with a series of disasters of tremendous proportions. This paper reports on a regional forum on Disasters and the Aftermath held in Bangkok from April 30 - May 5, which aimed to engage young people from these three countries as active participants in dealing with future disasters.
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  Developing strategies for climate change: the UNEP country studies on climate change impacts and adaptations assessment

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2002

  This report summarises four country studies, carried out in Antigua and Barbuda, Cameroon, Estonia, and Pakistan.

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