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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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    Weather Index-Based Insurance in Agricultural Development: A Technical Guide

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2011
    The technical guide is intended as a practical reference tool to guide IFAD, WFP and other donors’ country programme management staff through the steps of implementing a Weather Index-based Insurance programme. It is based on the recognition that weather index-based insurance represents an increasingly viable approach to help smallholder farmers prepare for climatic events.
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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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    Climate variability and change in the Himalayas: Community perceptions and responses

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2011
    This study, published by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, investigates how climate and socio-economic change is affecting the livelihoods of the mountain peoples of the Himalayas.
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    The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

    Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
    A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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    Understanding Vulnerability to Climate Change: Insights from Application of CARE's Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) Methodology

    Care Climate Change Information Centre, 2011
    People all over the world are being confronted with the reality of climate change. For some, climate change is simply a matter of changes in weather patterns, but for others, it is a matter of survival: too little water or too much, not enough food to go around, risks to safety and security.
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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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    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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