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A Right to a Decent Home: Asia Pacific Poverty Housing Report
Habitat for Humanity, 2007This report gives an overview of housing conditions for people living in poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. It highlights the importance of community-led shelter development as well as discussing housing conditions with a focus on urbanisation and population growth in cities. Various types of informal settlements are explored.DocumentAdapting to Climate Change: Cities and the Urban Poor
2011This paper explores some of the emerging issues for cities in the developing world as they develop strategies to adapt to the effects of climate change. People living in the most poverty are typically the most vulnerable. The urban poor are vulnerable because of where they live and the condition of their housing – they also face a limited ability to move to a safer environment.DocumentClimate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor
World Bank, 2012The residents of slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards, living on the most vulnerable lands within cities.DocumentCambodian agriculture: Adaptation to climate change impact
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013Cambodia has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. This International Food and Policy Institute discussion paper utilises crop models and village surveys to provide an overview of Cambodian agriculture's adaptation to climate change impacts.DocumentNew pathways to resistance: outcomes of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa research and capacity building program 2006-2012
International Development Research Centre, 2012This report presents a brief and interactive summary of the Climate Change in Africa research and capacity program’s chief contributions.DocumentLatin American experience in combining Disaster Risk Management with poverty reduction
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013Latin American countries are implementing a range of innovative strategies to address the underlying causes of disaster risk, while at the same time promoting social inclusion and productive growth.DocumentIndigenous peoples and climate change in Africa
Legal Assistance Centre, 2013Through two participatory case studies, this paper examines the impact of climate change on the indigenous peoples of Namibia.DocumentLinkages between population dynamics, urbanization processes and disaster risks: a regional vision of Latin America
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012With both urban population and the frequency of disasters increasing in Latin America, it is necessary to adequately plan for sustainable growth that takes these changing dynamics into account.DocumentReducing inequality and poverty while mitigating climate change: key challenges for research and practice in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America
Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012This working paper, produced by the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme, investigates the relationship between emissions, inequality and poverty in middle-income countries in Africa and Latin America. Research on this topic is of particular importance, since changing global demographics mean that the majority of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries.DocumentThe luck of the development draw: environmental volatility and the takeoff to modern economic growth
Social Science Research Network, 2012This paper tests the implications of a model which gives a central role to luck − in the form of good versus bad draws − in the process of economic development. An obvious potential source of good versus bad draws is environmental volatility, particularly in the context of developing economies which tend to be heavily dependent on agricultural output.Pages