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    People-centred climate change adaptation: integrating gender issues

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    This two page briefing paper documents how, as awareness of climate change has grown, so too has the gendered dimensions of its effects on people. It provides an overview of concepts and practical guidelines for implementing gender sensitive responses to climate change in the context of the livelihoods approach.
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    Time for CBA to engage with the livelihoods literature?

    Eldis Document Store, 2008
    The rapid pace at which the climate change agenda is permeating wide-ranging arenas of established development practice and theory leaves little space and time for reflection on the implications this has for learning across agendas and literatures.
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    Assets and adaptation: an emerging debate

    Eldis Document Store, 2008
    This article outlines current perspectives on adaptation and discusses what a pro-poor view of adaptation might look like. It argues that an explicit focus on assets, or the resources which people have available to them, adds a valuable perspective to adaptation debates.
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    Microfinance and climate change adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    This paper talks about possibilities of using microfinance as a coping strategy or tool for reducing peoples’ vulnerability to climate change. In doing so, the paper identifies possible links between microfinance services and climate adaptation and highlights the opportunities and the risks for reducing vulnerability among the world’s poorest populations.
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    Many strong voices: outline for an assessment project design

    Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2008
    This document defines, guides, and supports the development and implementation of a full assessment of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), under the Many Strong Voices (MSV) programme.
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    From risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008
    This 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.
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    Developing institutions and options for livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in drought-prone areas of Bangladesh

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
    What are people already doing to adapt their livelihoods to climate change in Bangladesh? What can be done to improve their capacity to adapt?
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    Turning up the heat: Climate change and poverty in Uganda

    Oxfam, 2008
    With a specific focus on Uganda, this report examines the impacts of climate changes on agriculture, pastoralism, health and water. The report aims to serve as a stimulus for change for people in developing countries like Uganda who are feeling the worst impacts of climate change, even though their contribution to global warming has been miniscule.
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    Climate change and displacement

    Forced Migration Review, 2008
    In 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.
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    Climate change in eastern and southern Africa: impacts, vulnerability and adaptation

    Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008
    In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that all of Africa is likely to warm during this century, with the drier subtropical regions warming more than the moist tropics. Annual rainfall is likely to decrease throughout most of the region, with the exception of eastern Africa, where annual rainfall is projected to increase.

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