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Reconfiguring urban adaptation finance
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014This paper examines international, national and municipal mechanisms for financing adaptation, and reveals the systemic barriers that prevent money being channelled into the hands of low-income and highly vulnerable urban residents in low- and middle-income countries, and hinder effective urban adaptation.DocumentDisaster event: Window of opportunity to implement global disaster policies?
Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 2013This article focuses on the potentially constructive nature of disasters, creating windows of opportunities to address the overlooked and neglected aspects of disaster risk reduction. It uses material from the Zimbabwe cholera disaster of 2008–2009, viewing it as a potential window of opportunity to accelerate the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.DocumentClimate Change and rural institutions in Central Viet Nam
Danish Institute for International Studies, 2013The working paper focuses on how meso-level institutions in Central Viet Nam are responding to climate change and extreme climate events – especially in regards to coastal zones. It describes emerging policies and trends in institutional response to climate change, with emphasis on the convergence of this response with disaster risk management and broader development efforts.DocumentThe indirect effects of adaptation: Pathways for vulnerability redistribution in the Colombian coffee sector
Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013This paper examines the possibility that measures taken to bolster livelihoods and adapt to climate change in one place could increase vulnerability elsewhere.DocumentCreating a sustainable food future: A menu of solutions to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013With population growth and development creating ever-more demand for food (noted here as comprising two-thirds and one-third a function of the increase respectively), humanity faces a growing food gap between what will be needed in 2050, and what can sustainably be produced.DocumentLift lives for good: Actions to tackle inequality and climate change
Oxfam, 2013This report focuses on inequality and climate change as two major injustices threatening the long-lasting change to lift people out of poverty and hunger. The climate change focus argues that climate change is prolonging and causing hunger and poverty through its impact on crops and livelihoods.DocumentDisplacement and older people: the case of the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011
HelpAge International, 2014Since the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on 11 March 2011, recovery and reconstruction activities have been taking place. Due to unimaginable changes of circumstances, effects on the daily lives of older people have been dramatic.DocumentInequality, economic growth, and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
African Development Bank, 2013The wave of protests and unrests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 2011 has continued in different forms. In addition to demands for more economic and political inclusion, the protests had been largely sparked by a refusal to any longer tolerate the gross socio-economic inequality perpetuated by long-entrenched “elite” in power.DocumentDare to prepare: taking risk seriously
Overseas Development Institute, 2013The key messages of this report are:DocumentImpact of climate change on life & livelihood of Dalits: An exploratory study from disaster risk reduction lens
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, 2013Dalit people are a highly vulnerable group, especially with regard to climate change, given both their high dependence on natural resources, and social, political, and economic exclusion inhibiting their adaptive capacity.Pages