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  Linking relief and development: an introduction and overview

  Climate Change and Disasters Group, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 1994

  There are currently key deficiencies in international emergency relief and development fields. These discrepancies are associated with issues of emergencies considerably disrupting development processes, and development policies often remaining insensitive to disaster risk.
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  Developments in adaptation: new responses to climate change

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Adapting to climate change is an urgent issue for developing countries. In many regions, the impacts of climate change are already affecting the ability of poor people to sustain livelihoods and provide enough food. How can the international community support developing countries as they adapt to a changing climate?
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  Can adaptation and mitigation be compliments?

  Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2005

  It is often assumed that climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation are complimentary strategies to deal with the impacts of climate change.
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  Adverse impacts of climate change on development of Nepal: integrating adaptation into policies and activities

  Capacity Strengthening of Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change, 2005

  Nepal is landlocked and highly mountainous with a diverse environment resulting from extreme spatial climate variation; climate varies from tropical to arctic over a span of approximately 200 km.
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  Disaster risk management in a changing climate

  Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group, 2005

  As awareness of climate change and disaster risk reduction increases there is a real opportunity to reduce current and future vulnerabilities to climate risks by expanding on disaster risk management efforts.
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  Disaster risk reduction: a development concern

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  Poverty and vulnerability do not necessarily overlap. Not all disasters affect the poorest the most, yet the poor tend to be more exposed and susceptible to hazards and suffer greater losses. Disasters can induce poverty.
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  Adverse impacts of climate change on development of Bhutan: integrating adaptation into policies and activities

  Capacity Strengthening of Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change, 2004

  Bhutan is a mountainous landlocked country with a varying climate and rich biodiversity.
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  Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health adaptation to climate change

  Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, 2003

  Environmental changes associated with climate change processes are significantly disrupting the Earth’s infrastructure and posing a risk to human well-being and health.
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  Social vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods and disasters

  Benfield Hazard Research Centre, 2004

  In 1997 the UK Department for International Development (DFID) adopted the priorities of the White Paper on International Development recognising the significance of socio-economic factors in making individuals vulnerable to disaster.
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  Climate change vulnerability assessments: an evolution of conceptual thinking

  Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 2002

  Climate change vulnerability assessments are performed for numerous purposes, with each purpose having particular information needs, and so this requires a particular assessment method to provide this information.

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