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    Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels

    World Bank, 2009
    This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.
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    Linking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management for sustainable poverty reduction. Synthesis report

    European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006
    This report presents a cross-cutting summary of country study findings and workshop deliberations on linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk management for sustainable poverty reduction. It uses examples from Mexico, Kenya and Vietnam to provide insights into how a more integrated approach to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation can be built.
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    Climate change and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2008
    This paper is the outcome of a seminar about the impacts of climate change on development and economic growth, as well as food security and trade in sub-Saharan Africa. The seminar aimed at identifying the economic policy issues underlying the problem and suggesting the relevant solutions.
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    Adaptation toolkit. Integrating adaptation to climate change into secure livelihoods

    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2009
    The existing poverty and the likelihood of severe effects of climate change in developing countries highlights the critical importance of adaptation to its impacts. Without substantial intervention, the likelihood of reaching global and specific national poverty reduction objectives will be severely hampered.
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    Social protection and climate change adaption

    Commission on Climate Change and Development, 2008
    Social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches, and they are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider short and long-term shocks andstresses associated with climate change.
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    2009 Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction: risk and poverty in a changing climate

    PreventionWeb, 2009
    There is a growing trend towards greater and more catastrophic natural disasters. Of the ten disasters with the highest death tolls since 1975, half have occurred in the five year period between 2003 and 2008; with the developing world witnessing nine of the ten worst.
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    Climate variability and climate change: implications for chronic poverty

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2008
    The paper identifies the current coping strategies for climate variability by the chronically poor in India and highlights some of the barriers to and opportunities for successful adaptation.
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    Re-framing resilience: a symposium report

    STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    The concept of resilience is becoming more important in academic, policy and popular debate. Resilience thinking is valuable in highlighting the complex dynamics of social-economic-environmental systems. This is increasingly important in a world where threats such as climate change, epidemic disease and fluctuating markets are present.
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    Microfinance and climate change adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    This paper talks about possibilities of using microfinance as a coping strategy or tool for reducing peoples’ vulnerability to climate change. In doing so, the paper identifies possible links between microfinance services and climate adaptation and highlights the opportunities and the risks for reducing vulnerability among the world’s poorest populations.
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    Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia. Climate change in the context of Asia: pro-poor adaptation, risk management, and mitigation strategies

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    With a focus on Asia, this paper looks at climate change, particularly in terms of pro-poor adaptation, risk management, and mitigation strategies. It also discusses what can be done from an international perspective in moving forward the fight against climate change.

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