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  Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2005

  This paper presents a detailed overview of ‘The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015', which was adopted at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Hyogo, Japan in 2005. 
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  Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels

  World Bank, 2009

  This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.
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  Resilience and sustainable development: building adaptive capacity in a world of transformations

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2002

  This paper is a synthesis of the rapidly-changing field of resilience research and argues that humanity has powerful interactions with biogeochemical, hydrological and ecological processes, from local to global scales. It argues that the complexity of social-ecological systems makes it necessary to abandon the perception of a global steady state.
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  Linking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management for sustainable poverty reduction. Synthesis report

  European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006

  This report presents a cross-cutting summary of country study findings and workshop deliberations on linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk management for sustainable poverty reduction. It uses examples from Mexico, Kenya and Vietnam to provide insights into how a more integrated approach to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation can be built.
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  Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies and Risk Management Practices: critical elements for adaptation to climate change

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2008

  This paper presents the risk-related elements referred to in the Bali Action Plan, namely disaster reduction strategies and risk management including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms.
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  Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific: the challenge of integration

  University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australian Tsunami Research Centre & Natural Hazards Research Laboratory (ATRC-NHRL), 2010

  This paper presents the integration of DRR and CCA initiatives in the pacific community, and draws upon the knowledge and insight of key stakeholders from multiple backgrounds to develop an understanding of the current status of DRR and CCA in the region.
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  The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation

  University of East Anglia, 2005

  This paper presents a set of indicators of vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate variability using a novel methodology for assessing vulnerability to climate-related mortality. The indicators are based on empirical analysis of data aggregated at the national level on a decadal timescale.
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  Policy arena disaster risk reduction or climate change adaptation: are we reinventing the wheel?

  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2010

  This paper explores the differences and similarities between Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) through analysing climate-related DRR in Papua New Guinea (PNG) within the context of wider development policies. It notes that more similarities than differences exist between CCA and DRR, but DRR presents advantages for development policy and practice that CCA does not.
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  Disaster Risk Reduction, climate change adaptation and human security. A commissioned report for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008

  The relationship between climate change and security is a key concern among governments and international organisations. Security concerns include the potential for conflict over natural resources, population displacement, migration, and humanitarian disasters due to extreme climatic events.
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  Adaptation toolkit. Integrating adaptation to climate change into secure livelihoods

  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009

  The existing poverty and the likelihood of severe effects of climate change in developing countries highlights the critical importance of adaptation to its impacts. Without substantial intervention, the likelihood of reaching global and specific national poverty reduction objectives will be severely hampered.

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