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  Assessment of impacts and adaptation to climate change: final report of the AIACC project

  Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training, 2007

  It is now recognised that there is an urgent need in developing countries to formulate and implement adaptive strategies that would lessen climate change risks.
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  Climate change adaptation and poverty reduction: key interactions and critical measures

  Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2007

  This paper explores the practical linkages between poverty reduction and adaptation to climate change, identifying the points of interaction between poverty eradication and adaptation interventions. Additionally, it examines the institutional context of integrating climate change adaptation measures in development assistance policies.
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  Empirical forecasting of slow-onset disasters for improved emergency response: an application to Kenya’s arid north

  Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Cornell University, 2006

  This paper sets out to develop an empirical forecasting model that can predict, with reasonable accuracy, the expected welfare impact of impending drought. This work is based on a set of regularly measured variables from communities in Kenya’s Arid North.
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  Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

  ActionAid International, 2007

  Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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  Building community capacity to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability

  South South North, 2006

  The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the community to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability, as well as to facilitate poverty reduction. The specific objectives of the project are: 
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  Bridging knowledge gaps between locals and experts through participatory decision making processes to address climate change impacts

  South South North, 2006

  This Pilang project will develop methodologies to facilitate effective communication between local communities and climate, marine and agricultural experts, to generate information regarding climate change vulnerabilities in the coastal area of Pilang. This information will be used to develop adaptation strategies for the target population. The project aims to: 
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  Summary of CRiSTAL: Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation & Livelihoods

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2007

  CRiSTAL (Community-based Risk Screening Tool - Adaptation and Livelihoods) is a tool designed to assist project planner and managers with integrating risk reduction and climate change adaptation into community-level projects.
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  Participatory Vulnerability Analysis: a step–by–step guide for field staff

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. This guide is specifically developed consistent with the PVA approach to: 
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  Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change in development assistance

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2007

  Over six development agencies are screening their portfolios with the aim of ascertaining the extent to which exisiting development projects already consider climate risks or address vulnerability to climate variability; and identifying opportunities for incorporating climate change explicitly into future projects.This paper assesses this screening process in order to dentify opportunites for d
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  Climate change and pastoralists: investing in people to respond to adversity

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  The sustainability of pastoral systems largely depends on a balancing act between pastures, livestock and people. The mobility of pastoralists and their livestock is also a key factor. With climate change, the authors of this article speculate that this balance will be undermined.

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