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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change in Pakistan

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  Adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity: the case of Pakistan

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002

  Society’s ability or inability to adapt successfully reflects its state of development. While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Third Assessment Report (TAR), 2001 accepts this premise, it also appears to contradict itself by alluding to macro and micro strategies for climate change as if the two were disconnected.
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  The Kyoto protocol and sustainable development

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002

  On the basis of their present and projected per capita emissions, developing countries are not likely to be key players in global warming with such emissions being well below the global average.
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  Planning for Floods: Now or Never

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014

  The year 2014 is the fifth consecutive year when Pakistan is undergoing extreme weather conditions.
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  Climate change adaptation: improving environment through reduction in wood cutting and remission in greenhouse gases with introduction and promotion of energy efficient technologies - district Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013

  The natural disaster and conflict have brought changes in the physical, chemical and biological character of environment across the globe. Pakistan is one of the worst victims facing effects of climate change in spite of the factual situation that it does not account for generating as well as expanding this global problem.
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  Employment Program in the Flood Affected Areas

  Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2011

  The focus of this study is to address the livelihoods loss issue in conjunction with the rebuilding of small infrastructure. Based on a rapid assessment of flood affected areas, the study identifies employment programmes at the village level that created short term livelihood possibilities for the poorest affected.
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  Mainstreaming Pakistan for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+): The way forward to readiness phase

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011

  The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has provided a platform to the international community to negotiate and take measures for climate change mitigation.
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  Lead exposure and children: blood lead levels in school children resulting from leaded petrol use and increasing road traffic in Pakistan

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2003

  Increasing prosperity and population growths in many developing countries are resulting in accelerated growth in vehicle population and vehicle kilometres travelled. In Pakistan, the number of vehicles have jumped from 0.8 million to about 4.0 million within 20 years showing an overall increase of more than 400 %.
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  Climate change and national security

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012

  Security can be measured at four different levels individual security, national security, regional security and global security, according to relevance of the situation and the subject. Global leaders are concerned about global security and in the same way regional leaders are concerned about regional security. National leaders are concerned about national security.
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  Coal-fired power generation in Pakistan: a policy paper

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014

  In coal-fired power generation, the global trend is towards improving the efficiency of thermal power plants by generating more electricity while using the minimum quantity of fuel (Natural Gas, Coal and Residual Fuel Oil) as well as lowering emissions.
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  Social inequality and environmental threats in Indus Delta villages: Pakistan

  Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012

  Protection of environmental and climate change migrants or refugees and the debate on the legal framework of refugees’ rehabilitation is a matter of major concern for international humanitarian as well as development oriented organizations.

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