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  Outlook on climate change adaptation in the tropical Andes mountains

  GRID Arendal, 2015

  The Tropical Andes are the home to many diverse communities, from remote farming villages to large urban centres and capitals, such as Merida, Bogotá, Quito, Cusco and La Paz. In total, about 60 million people live between 1,000 to 4,500 meters. The climate in the region is tropical, with low seasonal variation in temperatures.
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  Management Regimes established for REDD+ and their Adaptability to the Institutional and Ecological Conditions: A case of Ongo Community Forest, Masindi District, Uganda

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2015

  This  report is one of the outputs of theproject “Man and forests – an  evaluation  of  management strategies for reduced deforestation” which aimed at evaluating the different  management strategies  undertaken  to  obtain  reduced  deforestation  in  tropical  forests  and  hence  maintain 
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  Planning a new urban research programme for SEI Africa: A review of current and potential avenues of research on sustainable urbanization

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2015

  This working paper reviews existing SEI expertise on urban issues and identifies the existing and potential research areas and partners that SEI Africa should concentrate on as it develops this new programme.
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  Climate-smart agriculture in Grenada

  World Bank, 2015

  This document sets out a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept for Grenada which aims to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness.
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  Disaster Risk Management in Latin America andthe Caribbean Region: GFDRR Country Notes, Grenada

  2009

  Given Grenada’s size, 100% of the estimated population of 110,000 can be exposed during a single storm event.
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  Evaluating climate change adaptation readiness of Caribbean island nations in relation to fisheries and fishing communities

  Halifax Initiative, 2015

  This thesis evaluated the readiness of Caribbean fisheries to respond to climate change including factors such as political leadership on adaptation; institutional organisation for adaptation; adaptation decision making and stakeholder involvement; climate change information and research; funding for adaptation planning and evaluation; and science and technology to inform adaptation.
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  Future of reefs in a changing environment: an ecosystem approach to managing Caribbean coral reefs in the face of climate change: Barbados country profile

  Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment, University of Queensland, 2014

  This report provides a summary of governance and livelihoods research conducted as part of the Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment (FORCE) project.
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  Fostering effective international collaboration for marine science in small island states

  Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015

  A key element of aligned, long-term scientific collaboration is simply the right people finding each other, maintain the authors in this report. At SIDS Conference 2014 it was proposed that a platform be developed to connect seekers and providers of funding.
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  Training of the Caribbean network of fisherfolk organisations in EAF and climate change: workshop

  Caribbean Natural Resources Institute, 2012

  Eighteen participants from 11 countries participated in a 2012 workshop, representing National Fisherfolk Organisations (NFOs) and Primary Fisherfolk Organisations (PFOs).
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  Alternatives to conventional management: lessons from small-scale fisheries

  2003

  This paper is based on long-term research on small-scale fisheries and community-based resource management and discusses alternatives to conventional management which may be more responsive to uncertainty, complexity and knowledge-sharing. The second starting point concerns the need to manage environment and resource systems for resilience, rather than for products and commodities.

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