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    Household cookstoves, environment, health, and climate change: a new look at an old problem

    World Bank, 2011
    In many developing countries, the poor are still using biomass energy to meet their household cooking needs. This report examines the lessons learned from cookstove campaigns, policies and programmes and the potential of advanced biomass cookstoves as 'game changers'.
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    Africa human development report 2012: towards a food secure future

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    Due to misguided policies, weak institutions and failing markets, sub-Saharan Africa has millions of hungry and malnourished people. This first Africa Human Development Report 2012 seeks to look beyond direct causes of food insecurity, such as crop failure, to highlight the social and political dimensions that are inhibiting progress.
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    Climate change and hunger: responding to the challenge

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge.
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    Climate Change Bandwagoning: The Impacts of Strategic Linkages on Regime Design, Maintenence, and Death

    2011
    Although climate linkages are prolific across various types of social organisation, this special issue focuses of the wide range of ways that international regimes are strategically linked to climate change politics. In recent years we noticed a marked increase in regime-level linkage politics seeping into both formal UNFCCC negotiations and side events.
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    The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

    Centre for Development Informatics, 2011
    A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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    Challenges to disaster risk reduction: a study of stakeholders’ perspectives in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa

    African Centre for Disaster Studies, 2011
    South Africa is a dynamic, developing country in a challenging transition as it struggles to protect life and health, property, infrastructure and the environment from disasters. It is generally accepted that prevention is better than cure when it comes to disasters, and so South Africa’s National Disaster Management Act and Framework focuses on proactive disaster risk reduction.
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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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    Technologies for climate change adaptation: agriculture sector

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2011
    The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events make food production even more challenging. This guidebook provides information on 22 technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector.
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    How urban societies can adapt to resource shortage and climate change

    Royal Society, 2011
    The increased pressures on the world’s natural resources and ecological systems in the past century, has been accompanied by rapid urban population growth. Urban centres themselves have ecological reputations since they drive unsustainable environmental change.
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    Reducing risks to cities from disasters and climate change

    Russell Sage Foundation, 2007
    The lives and livelihoods of millions of people will be affected by how climate change is handled in cities in the next few years. While some city governments and civil society groups are acting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they are ignoring the need to act to reduce vulnerability to climate change.

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