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    Humanitarian implications of climate change. Mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots

    Reliefweb, 2008
    This study identifies the most likely humanitarian implications of climate change for the next 20-30 year period. The authors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map specific hazards associated with climate change – specifically: floods, cyclones and droughts – and place them in relation to factors influencing vulnerability.
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    Gender perspectives: integrating disaster risk reduction into climate change adaptation good practices and lessons learned

    United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2008
    It is a well-known prediction that women in the developing world will suffer the most from the effects of climate change. What needs equal emphasis is the fact that women also represent an immense source of potential and power to combat the increased disaster risks that climate change will bring.
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    Browsing on fences: pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This paper presents an overview of pastoral systems and addresses rights issues around access and control of resources in the context of climate change. The document brings together the inputs made by over 120 participants in a 2006 web-based forum and also includes material from a number of projects from around the world.
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    Climate resilient cities. A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening disaster risk management in East Asian cities

    World Bank, 2008
    This primer is a guide for local governments in East Asia to help them understand the concepts and consequences of climate change and how climate change consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities.
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    Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
    This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.
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    In the face of disaster: children and climate change

    International Save the Children Alliance, 2008
    Climate change is likely to lead to an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and it will be the people in the poorest countries, especially children, who will bear the brunt.
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    Climate change and human rights: a rough guide

    International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva, 2008
    This report discusses a spectrum of human rights concerns raised by anthropogenic climate change and by the strategies devised to address it.
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    Human tide: the real migration crisis

    Christian Aid, 2007
    The number of IDPs is expected to rise dramatically in the coming decades. And those already displaced look likely to be joined by at least equal numbers of people forced from their homes because of climate change. The case studies in this report spell out in human detail how major internal migration crises, caused by conflict, have already developed in Sudan, in Uganda and in Sri Lanka.
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    Disaster preparedness for climate change in Nicaragua

    International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2008
    This two-page briefing describes a pilot initiative on climate change and disaster risk reduction supported by the Netherlands Red Cross in Nicaragua. The project aims at strengthening the Nicaraguan Red Cross’s capacity to carry out local-level activities related to risk reduction and to respond to extreme weather events.
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    Community level adaptation to climate change: the potential role of participatory community risk assessment

    Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2008
    Community Risk Assessment (CRA) refers to participatory methods to assess hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities in support of community-based disaster risk reduction, used by many NGOs, community-based organisations, and the Red Cross/Red Crescent.

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