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    Survival of the fittest. Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa

    Oxfam, 2008
    This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change. 
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    The environment and poverty times

    Arendal Maps & Graphics Library, UNEP/GRID, 2008
    The paper features a collection of short articles that focus on the complex links between environment and poverty reduction. The articles discuss how natural resources can contribute to economic growth that also benefits the poor.
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    The economic impact of climate change in Namibia: how climate change will affect the contribution of Namibia’s natural resources to its economy

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Climate change is likely to exacerbate the dry conditions already experienced in Southern Africa; but these predictions gain little policy attention in Southern African countries. This paper discusses how Namibia must take steps to provide some economic indicators of how climate change will affect the country and ensure that all its policies and activities are ‘climate proofed’.
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    The right to development in a climate constrained world: the Greenhouse Development Rights framework

    Ecoequity, 2007
    This paper presents an exposition of the Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework and an indicative quantification of its implications. Through a human development lens, it looks at the key issues, challenges and politics in a GDR framework.
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    A climate of conflict

    SIDA Studies, 2008
    Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. This report takes such findings, expressed in the Forth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, as its starting point and looks at the social and human consequences that are likely to ensue – particularly the risks of conflict and instability.
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    Truly inconvenient: tackling poverty and climate change at once

    Christian Aid, 2008
    This paper discusses how human development aid and improving economic opportunities for poor people can be combined with reducing atmospheric greenhouse gases and global warming. It highlights the urgent need for action. The authors support the Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework of equity for sharing the cost of the action needed.
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    Beyond any drought: root causes of chronic vulnerability in the Sahel

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    This paper examines vulnerability to droughts in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the background of the 2005 food crisis in the Sahel region. The authors argue that vulnerability to droughts is due to a combination of political, economic and social forces as well as the impacts of highly variable rainfall.
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    Assessment of impacts and adaptation to climate change: final report of the AIACC project

    Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training, 2007
    It is now recognised that there is an urgent need in developing countries to formulate and implement adaptive strategies that would lessen climate change risks.
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    Climate change adaptation and poverty reduction: key interactions and critical measures

    Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2007
    This paper explores the practical linkages between poverty reduction and adaptation to climate change, identifying the points of interaction between poverty eradication and adaptation interventions. Additionally, it examines the institutional context of integrating climate change adaptation measures in development assistance policies.
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    Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.

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