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  Climate change, adaptation, and formal education: the role of schooling for increasing societies' adaptive capacities in El Salvador and Brazil

  Ecology and Society, 2012

  This paper examines the influence of formal education in determining the adaptive capacity of the residents of two low-income settlements where climate-related disasters are recurrent: Los Manantiales in San Salvador (El Salvador) and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
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  A toolkit for integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia

  United Nations Development Programme, 2012

  This comprehensive toolkit, jointly produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Asia Pacific Secretariat, seeks to provide strategies for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia.
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  Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa: an exploration into alternative investment options

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012

  This discussion paper seeks to explore alternative investment options with the aim of enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa. Climate change, conflict, drought and increasing populations are leading many to pessimistic conclusions regarding the future viability of pastoral farming, arguing that these livelihoods should be sedentarised and diversified.
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  Participatory 3-D modeling for climate change adaptation in India: experience, guiding principles, future opportunities

  Watershed Organisation Trust, 2012

  Participatory three-dimensional modelling (P3DM) is a participatory geographic information system (PGIS) method that attempts to convey indigenous experience and spatial knowledge in a digital form that is communicable to researchers and policymakers, theoretically empowering indigenous communities with a voice in the legislative planning and management of natural resources.
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  Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)

  Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation founded in 1993, currently operating in five 5 Indian states: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan a
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  Grow in concert with nature: green water defense for flood risk management in East Asia

  World Bank, 2012

  This report takes stock of advances in management practices, and institutional and technological innovations for managing water resources under a changing climate. The focus is on green water defense (GWD) for flood risk management in deltas and other areas vulnerable to flooding in East Asia.
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  Atlas of health and climate

  2012

  Climate change intensifies environmental hazards, such as cyclones, droughts and floods, which affect the health of millions of people each year.
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  Adapting to climate change: assessing the World Bank Group experience phase III

  World Bank, 2012

  Developing countries are not yet well adapted to current climate risks, even though the risks are becoming harsher and more intense. This evaluation draws lessons from the World Bank Group’s experiences with adaptation to both current levels of climate variability and ongoing climate change.
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  Exploring future impacts of environmental constraints on human development

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2012

  Environmental constraints have always had important consequences for human development. However, the possibility that such constraints, including climate change, will grow significantly in this century raises concern over future advances in human development.
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  Children’s action for disaster risk reduction: views from children in Asia

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012

  This report indicates that Asian children and youth have been involved in hazard mapping, raising awareness through radio and games, as well as influencing other children, their teachers, parents and communities on how to reduce the effects of disasters.

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