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  Measuring ‘subjective resilience’: using people’s perceptions to quantify household resilience

  Overseas Development Institute, 2015

  How should we measure a household’s resilience? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of ‘objective’ frameworks and methods of indicator selection.
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  Strategic research into national and local capacity building for DRM: Philippines 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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  Strategic research into national and local capacity building for DRM: Pakistan 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: Haiti 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), an d 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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  A Pro-Poor INDC? Designing Indonesia INDC that enhance a low carbon and resilient development

  Institute for Essential Services Reform, 2015

  This paper makes several recommendations on developing a pro-poor Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) that includes mitigation and adaptation activities, particularly in Indonesia.
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  Measuring 'subjective resilience': using peoples' perceptions to quantify household resilience

  Overseas Development Institute, 2015

  This working paper discusses the advantages of measuring subjective household resilience.
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  Climate change and aquatic animal disease

  The WorldFish Center, 2015

  This paper argues that scientists need to better understand the impacts of climate change on aquaculture if we are to meet future seafood demand.It highlights the risks of increased fish disease as a result of climate change and calls for a mapping of the potential risks and the identification of suitable adaptation and mitigation intervention strategies.
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  Integrating indigenous, local and modern knowledge for sustainable conservation and management of forest ecosystems in Nepal

  ForestryNepal, 2015

  This paper reports on the documentation and assessment of different community based traditional and local forest and pasture management practices, drawn from five case examples in five districts of Nepal.
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  IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Chapter 20: Climate-resilient pathways: adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014

  Climate change calls for new approaches to sustainable development that take into account complex interactions between climate and social and ecological systems. Climate-resilient pathways are development trajectories that combine adaptation and mitigation to realize the goal of sustainable development.
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  Climate Smart Villages: Building affordable and replicable adaptation pilots in mountain areas

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2015

  This paper documents ICIMOD’s Climate Smart Village approach, which is customised for mountain area. The approach is based on climate smart agriculture – which combines the three dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social, and environmental) for an integrated approach to climate adaptation, resilience, and food security.

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