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    Decision-making constraints on the implementation of viable disaster risk reduction projects: some perspectives from economics

    Laboratory for Social Science Research, International Hurricane Research Center, Florida International University, 2011
    This paper seeks to explain why progress has been so slow on the implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects and programmes over the last decade. It explains that failure to implement cost-effective DRR projects may result from a breakdown of of decision-making at the individual, policy analyst and policymaker levels.
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    Climate change risk: a mitigation and adaptation agenda for Indian cities

    Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
    India is one of the more vulnerable and risk-prone countries in the world, but its population have learned to cope with a wide range of natural and human-made hazards. Rapid population growth, high densities, poverty and high differentials in access to housing, public services and infrastructure have led to an increase in vulnerability, especially in urban centers.
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    Sustainable livelihoods approaches: past, present and...future?

    Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
    How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date?
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    The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

    Foresight UK, 2011
    The global food system will experience an unprecedented combination of pressures over the next 40 years. Global population size will increase and competition for land, water and energy will intensify, while the effects of climate change will become increasingly apparent. Over this period, globalisation will continue, exposing the food system to novel economic and political pressures.
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    Forestry and REDD in Africa

    Arid Lands Information Network, 2010
    Over 70 percent of Africa’s population depends on forests: for fuel wood, construction materials, medicine, food, and revenue from forest products. Governments and conservationists recognise Africa’s forests for their high biodiversity and environmental benefits.
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    Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.  While these approaches have much in common, because they have developed separatel
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    Climate change and social protection in Cambodia: linkages and synergies

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
    Because of its low adaptive capacity, Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate change events, particularly as the social protection system in Cambodia is still under development.
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    Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity

    Overseas Development Institute, 2010
    How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection (SP) and livelihoods (LH) approaches can play an important role in terms of climate adaptive capacity.
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    Connecting social protection and climate change adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
    This brief argues that social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches. The authors think that these initiatives are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider both the short and long-term shocks and stresses associated with climate change.
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    Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection.

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