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Child focused disaster risk reduction
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2007This Handbook is a review on existing literature and case studies in India and Philippines which have a specific focus on integrating children in to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies and programmes. It is part of a course organised by Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre on how to successfully carry out community disaster risk reduction.DocumentImpacts assessment and climate change adaptation strategies in Makawanpur District, Nepal
ForestryNepal, 2008This research report assesses the impacts of climate change on agriculture, fresh water, biodiversity, and livelihood of the communities in the Makawanpur district of Nepal.DocumentTransitioning to climate resilient development. Perspectives from communities in Peru
World Bank Publications, 2008While the scientific capacity to forecast El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) extremes, this papers questions the extent to which these advances have benefited vulnerable communities by increasing their resilience to impeding El Niño events.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.DocumentHow vulnerable are Bangladesh's indigenous people to climate change?
2008This working paper compares the vulnerability to climate change of Bangladesh’s indigenous people with that of the Bengali population of Bangladesh in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Analysis of this study is based on distinguishing between individual and spatial vulnerabilities to climate change.DocumentDisaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: closing the gap
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008There is significant overlap between the practice and theory of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. However, there is limited coherence and convergence in institutions, organisations and policy frameworks.DocumentFrom grassroots to global: people centered disaster risk reduction
ProVention Consortium, 2008In April 2008 a group of 170 partners met in Panama city to attend the forum ‘From Grassroots to Global: People-Centered Disaster Risk Reduction’. This document records the energy, ideas and views resulting from discussions and presentations in the formal sessions and also in the corridors of the event.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.DocumentFrom risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions
Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change through an analysis of case studies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The paper focuses on water related disasters and the manner in which they may change as a consequence of climate change.DocumentClimate change and displacement
Forced Migration Review, 2008In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges of this century.Pages