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  Adaptive capacity and livelihood resilience: adaptive strategies for responding to flood and droughts in South Asia

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2004

  Change is inherent to the human context. Whether the need is catalysed by extreme events such as floods, droughts and economic collapse or more gradual processes of change in environmental, technological or economic systems, we survive via adaptation.
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  Vulnerability through the eyes of vulnerable: climate change induced uncertainties and Nepal's development predicaments

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2009

  In its fourth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) depicts the Hindukush-Himalaya, including Nepal, as a “white spot,” a region about which scientific information on climate change is limited or lacking altogether.
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  From research to capacity, policy and action: enabling adaptation to climate change for poor populations in Asia through research, capacity building and innovation

  2008

  Climate change adaptation will involve changes that cut across human socioeconomic systems in ways that affect virtually all aspects of life. Consequently, any attempt to assess priorities, capabilities and research gaps on climate change and poverty reduction risks either becoming fragmentary or massive and without focus.
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  From risk to resilience: costs and benefits of flood mitigation in the Lower Bagmati Basin: case of Nepal Tarai and North Bihar

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2008

  In the northern Ganga plains floods are common and constitute a major cause of the poverty endemic to the region. The largest investment governments have made in response to the risk of flooding has been in structural measures such as embankments and spurs. The relative costs and benefits of building embankments are widely debated but have never been systematically evaluated.
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  Shifting the Response Terrain

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2009

  Globally, research on climate dynamics and change generates new information and insights on an almost daily basis. This information has profound implications for human understanding of climate systems and the changes we face as climate conditions evolve, whether due to natural causes or anthropogenic forcing.
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  Catalyzing climate and disaster resilience: processes for identifying tangible and economically robust strategies

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2009

  The economic benefits to society of investing in disaster risk management substantially exceed the costs. Appropriately designed risk reduction strategies represent a sound investment that is central both to alleviating poverty and to responding to the expected impacts of climate change on lives and livelihood systems.
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  Adaptation and livelihood resilience: implementation pilots and research in regions vulnerable to extreme climatic variability and change

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2009

  The implications of climate change on humans, particularly the poor and marginalised of South Asia and how they would adapt are fundamental questions. The process of adaptation will involve issues that cut across all aspects of human and socioeconomic systems in South Asia.
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  Living with water stress in the hills of Koshi Basin, Nepal

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2009

  Situated in Nepal’s eastern Ganges region, the Koshi basin is one of three snowfed watersheds in the country. Altogether, the Koshi river draines 71,500 km in Tibet, Nepal, and north Bihar. Along its course, the river is known for floods, extremely high sediment loads, and capricious behaviour.
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  Proceedings of 
national seminar on sustainable development: growth, equity and sustainability

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2013

  The recently concluded Rio+20 United Nations conference held in Brazil identified economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability as the three pillars of sustainable development.
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  Proceedings of national seminar on small scale irrigation: experiences, challenges, opportunities and pathways

  Institute For Social And Environmental Transition ISET-Nepal, 2013

  Nepali farmers and a variety of governmental and non-governmental development agencies have substantial experience in developing small-scale irrigation systems (SSISs).

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