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    Human Development Report 2009. Overcoming barriers: human mobility and development

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    This report explores how better policies towards human mobility can enhance human development. It lays out the case for governments to reduce restrictions on movement within and across their borders, so as to expand human choices and freedoms.
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    Should Africa take the renewable energy path?

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Modern energy services are essential for reducing poverty. Countries need energy to increase economic production, which improves livelihood options for women and men. Energy is also needed to increase agricultural productivity, provide clean water and improve human health, and energy enables girls and boys to go to school.
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    Climate change risk: a mitigation and adaptation agenda for Indian cities

    Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
    India is one of the more vulnerable and risk-prone countries in the world, but its population have learned to cope with a wide range of natural and human-made hazards. Rapid population growth, high densities, poverty and high differentials in access to housing, public services and infrastructure have led to an increase in vulnerability, especially in urban centers.
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    The future of pastoralism in a changing climate

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2011
    Pastoralism is a free-range livestock production system. It is practised in all of Africa’s dryland regions, and in some communities it is the main source of food security and income. But will pastoralism survive in the changing climate? This issue of Joto Afrika provides research findings, lessons learnt and success stories from across Africa.
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    Harnessing synergies: mainstreaming climate change adaptation in disaster risk reduction programmes and policies

    2011
    There is increased recognition of the value of mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) into Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities, to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience. However, there is a lack of practical, actionable recommendations on how to create an environment where attempts to mainstream CCA into DRR can flourish.
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    The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

    Foresight UK, 2011
    The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.
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    The implications of climate change for health in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2010
    The interactions between health and climate change are clearly recognised; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change includes a chapter on health issues in all its publications. But we still need to better understand all the possible impacts of climate change on health.
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    Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

    Development Research Network, 2010
    This brief focuses on how disaster risk management approaches are taking longer term climate change perspectives. The intention is to highlight, through a series of case studies and research summaries, some best practice/management practices implemented in South Asia and offer recommendations for both practitioners and policy makers.
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    Forestry and REDD in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2010
    Over 70 percent of Africa’s population depends on forests: for fuel wood, construction materials, medicine, food, and revenue from forest products. Governments and conservationists recognise Africa’s forests for their high biodiversity and environmental benefits.
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    Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection.

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