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  Topic guide: education, climate and environment

  Evidence on Demand, 2015

  This Topic Guide provides expert knowledge on the relationship between education, climate and environment. In particular, it outlines:
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  Climate change, adaptation, and formal education: the role of schooling for increasing societies' adaptive capacities in El Salvador and Brazil

  Ecology and Society, 2012

  This paper examines the influence of formal education in determining the adaptive capacity of the residents of two low-income settlements where climate-related disasters are recurrent: Los Manantiales in San Salvador (El Salvador) and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
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  Climate-Smart Agriculture: Possible Roles of Agricultural Universities in a Strengthened Norwegian Climate Change Engagement in Africa

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012

  The recent rise in the number of food insecure people in the world, coupled with incidences of crop failure due to adverse weather, have made world leaders increasingly aware that future climate change may severely limit our ability to feed the growing population towards 2050.
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  Summary Report on Initial Findings: Feasibility Study on Storm Resistant Housing Credit Scheme and Livelihood Development for Poor Households in Da Nang City

  2011

  This report presents initial findings from a study that examined the feasibility of a storm resistant housing credit programme and livelihood training for female-headed households managed by the Da Nang City Women’s Union. The report has been produced by the Asian Cities Climate Change Network (ACCCN).
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  Education responses to climate change and quality: Two parts of the same agenda?

  Science Direct, 2010

  Increasing attention to climate change and the current global economic crisis has underscored the need for approaches to education that equip and empower people of all ages to deal with uncertain environmental, economic and political futures.
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  Towards a culture of prevention: disaster risk reduction begins at school - good practices and lessons learned

  United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2007

  The World Disaster Reduction Campaign for 2006-2007 "Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School" has resulted in various initiatives worldwide to make school buildings safer and have disaster risk reduction taught in school. This report highlights best practices of disaster risk reduction in the school community.
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  Young people's forum: Disasters and the aftermath: building young people’s life skills for health and education: country consultations summary report

  UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, 2007

  Young people in Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand have been confronted in the past few years with a series of disasters of tremendous proportions. This paper reports on a regional forum on Disasters and the Aftermath held in Bangkok from April 30 - May 5, which aimed to engage young people from these three countries as active participants in dealing with future disasters.