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  Climate resilient infrastructure services: lessons learned

  Climate Change Resilient Development project - Mainstreaming Adaptation for USAID, 2015

  The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Services (CRIS) program was an initiative of USAID’s Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) project. CRIS worked to improve the ability of cities in developing countries to provide reliable and sustainable infrastructure services that support smart and lasting development, even in a changing climate.
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  High mountain adaptation partnership: lessons learned in Nepal and Peru

  Climate Change Resilient Development project - Mainstreaming Adaptation for USAID, 2015

  Glacier-dominated mountains play a major role in providing water to large numbers of people. These glacier-dominated areas also pose unique challenges to downstream communities as they adapt to recent and continuing global climate change.
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  Extreme weather and resilience of the global food system

  Global Food Security Programme, 2015

  This report examines the resilience of the global food system to extreme weather.
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  Climate and Development Outlook: Pakistan special edition - Learning to live with climate change

  Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2015

  Published by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), this special edition of Climate and Development Outlook focuses on Pakistan and work in support of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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  Building Environmental Resilience: A snapshot of farmers adapting to climate change in Kenya

  Greenpeace International, 2015

  This report examines the practise used to build resilience to climate change by farmers in Kenya. In October 2014 interviews were conducted with farmers and members of the organisations that support them in West and Eastern Kenya. The aim was to identify which practices are being used successfully to build resilience, and alternatively which practices increase vulnerability.
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  Reimagining India’s Urban Future: A framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate resilient urban development in India

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2015

  This paper reviews the current state of the literature on Indian urbanisation to analyse existing urban development trajectories at the state level.
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  Does adaptation finance invest in disaster risk reduction?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2015

  This report argues that there is a gap for disaster risk reduction (DRR) financing, which could be filled by adaptation funds that have the capacity to invest directly in DRR activities and to integrate DRR into their other activities.
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  Gender and climate change in the Indian Himalayas: global threats, local vulnerabilities, and livelihood diversification at the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve

  Copernicus Publications, 2015

  This paper presents a case study from the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve outlining the implications of climate change for women farmers in the area, as well as highlighting the potential for ecotourism as a key livelihood asset. It argues that ecotourism could strengthen the adaptive capacity of local communities' in Uttarakhand, India, more broadly.
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  Strategic research into national and local capacity building for DRM: Myanmar fieldwork report

  Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management (2013-2015), 2014

  To date there has been little formal, empirical research that has been conducted on capacity building for disaster risk management (DRM), and as a result international actors lack robust, evidence-based guidance on how capacity for DRM can be effectively generated at national and local levels.
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  Strategic research into national and local capacity building for DRM: Mozambique fieldwork report

  Strategic Research into National and Local Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management (2013-2015), 2015

  To date there has been little formal, empirical research that has been conducted on capacity building for disaster risk management (DRM), and as a result international actors lack robust, evidence-based guidance on how capacity for DRM can be effectively generated at national and local levels.

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