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  Koh Phi Phi: Moving Towards or Away from Sustainability?

  2012

  This article examines tourism development and sustainability, and whether this idea can truly exist in practice. Using the Theory of the Commons and Stakeholder Theory as a starting point, it examines whether sustainable tourism is a true concept that can exist among stakeholders.
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  Feeling Stressed: Integrating Climate Adaptation with Other Priotities in South Africa

  2012

  In response to the growing concern over the expected effects of climate change, a growing number of people are exploring how communities have and might respond to climate as one of a number of interacting stresses.
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  Making Rio 2012 Work: Setting the Stage for Global Economic, Social and Ecological Renewal

  Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2011

  The world faces old and new security challenges that are more complex than our multilateral and national institutions are currently capable of managing.
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  Haiti: ‘a gathering storm’ - climate change and poverty

  Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2009

  This report gives an insight into how poor people are experiencing climate change in Haiti, already one of the poorest countries in the world, and what challenges they are currently facing, and will continue to face in the future.
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  Pakreport: Crowdsourcing for Multipurpose and Multicategory Climate related Disaster Reporting

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  This case study focuses on Pakreport, an ICT initiative between crisis mapping organisations, engineers, relief agencies and crowdsourcing companies that began in July 2010 as a response to the floods.
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  Role of ICTs in Early Warning of Climate Related Disasters: A Sri Lankan Case Study

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  Climate change is now increasing – and will further increase in future – both the frequency and intensity of natural disasters in Sri Lanka including cyclones, floods and landslides (MoE 2010).
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  Using Mobile Phones to Reduce the Adversities of Climate Change in Rural Nepal

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  The initiative described in this case is part of a disaster risk reduction project implemented by Practical Action in Nepal, financially supported by the UK's Department for International Development.
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  Maladaptation

  Science Direct, 2010

  This paper defines and explains five key dimensions of maladaptation which it refers to as “the problem of increasing risks from adaptation activities”.
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  A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Practical Action’s Livelihood-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction Project in Nepal

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2011

  This study provides a systematic cost-benefit analysis of a community-based disaster risk management project led by Practical Action in two districts of Nepal over the period 2007 to 2010. The objectives of the project are:
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  Updating the Indicators of Disaster Risk and Risk Management for the Americas

  Journal of Integrated Disaster Risk Management, 2011

  In order to improve disaster risk understanding and disaster risk management performance in Latin America and the Caribbean a transparent, representative and robust system of indicators was developed by the Institute of Environmental Studies of the National University of Colombia, Manizales.

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