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Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection.DocumentAssessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels
World Bank, 2009This 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.DocumentLinking 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, 2006This 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.DocumentAdaptation toolkit. Integrating adaptation to climate change into secure livelihoods
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009The 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.DocumentClimate variability and climate change: implications for chronic poverty
Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2008The paper identifies the current coping strategies for climate variability by the chronically poor in India and highlights some of the barriers to and opportunities for successful adaptation.DocumentReducing poverty and hunger in Asia. Climate change in the context of Asia: pro-poor adaptation, risk management, and mitigation strategies
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008With a focus on Asia, this paper looks at climate change, particularly in terms of pro-poor adaptation, risk management, and mitigation strategies. It also discusses what can be done from an international perspective in moving forward the fight against climate change.DocumentThe right to development in a climate constrained world: the Greenhouse Development Rights framework
Ecoequity, 2007This paper presents an exposition of the Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework and an indicative quantification of its implications. Through a human development lens, it looks at the key issues, challenges and politics in a GDR framework.DocumentA climate of conflict
SIDA Studies, 2008Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. This report takes such findings, expressed in the Forth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, as its starting point and looks at the social and human consequences that are likely to ensue – particularly the risks of conflict and instability.DocumentUnjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities
ActionAid International, 2007Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.DocumentSustainable development in Africa: is the climate right?
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, 2005This paper proposes that much better management of climate variability is essential if sustainable development is to be achieved in Africa.Pages