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  Water resources, climate change and human vulnerability

  National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2009

  This paper focuses on the impact of climate change on water resources and the affect it has on human society. Millions of people are at risk from the impacts of climate change associated with the socio-political dimensions of global change and demographic changes.
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  Children on the frontline: children and young people in Disaster Risk Reduction

  Plan, 2009

  Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to disasters - one in every three survivors of the Indian Ocean Tsunami were women or children under the age of 15.
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  Rising temperatures, rising tension: climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2009

  Climate models are predicting a hotter, drier and less predictable climate in the Middle East, a region already considered the world's most water-scarce and where, in many places, demand for water already outstrips supply. This report addresses the links between climate change, peace and conflict.
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  Rights-based approaches: exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2009

  The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can undermine those same rights of affected communities and can undermine conservation objectives.
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  2009 Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction: risk and poverty in a changing climate

  PreventionWeb, 2009

  There is a growing trend towards greater and more catastrophic natural disasters. Of the ten disasters with the highest death tolls since 1975, half have occurred in the five year period between 2003 and 2008; with the developing world witnessing nine of the ten worst.
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  More than rain: identifying sustainable pathways for climate adaptation and poverty reduction

  Development Fund, Norway, 2008

  This report aims to contribute to the increased understanding of how to integrate climate change adaptation in poverty reduction projects and programs in ways that increase the capacity of individuals, households and communities to respond to climate variability and change.
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  Water Adaptation in NAPAs. Freshwater in climate adaptation planning and climate adaptation in freshwater planning. A UNDP Side publication to WWDR3

  United Nations Development Programme, 2009

  The Report looks at water adaptation aspects in ongoing processes of formulating and implementing National Adaptation Programmes of Action – NAPAs.
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  Land and water resource management in Asia. Challenges for climate adaptation

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2009

  This paper identifies key development issues relating to land and water management in the less developed countries of the Himalayan and South East Asian (SEA) regions, and how these are likely to be affected by long-term climate change. The authors link the issues of poverty reduction, land and water resource management, and climate adaptation in practice.
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  Transitioning to climate resilient development. Perspectives from communities in Peru

  World Bank Publications, 2008

  While 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.
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  Climate change, its impacts and possible community based responses in Bangladesh

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2010

  This paper aims to summarise current international and national literature on climate change and put it into language which will be more easily understood by development practitioners in Bangladesh and elsewhere.  Specifically, the paper is divided into the following sections:

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