Search
Searching with a thematic focus on Climate Change Adaptation, Climate change, Poverty
Showing 1-10 of 104 results
Pages
- Document
Poverty & death: disaster and mortality 1996-2015
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2016The period 1996 to 2015 saw 7,056 disasters recorded worldwide by EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database.DocumentIntegrating disaster response and climate resilience in social protection programs in the Pacific Island Countries
Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2015The Pacific i sland countries (PICs) are some of the most exposed to frequent natural disasters and climate shocks, and their vulnerability is increasing due to mounting effects of climate change as well as demographic and economic forces. Natural disasters hit the poorest hardest and have long -term consequences for human development.DocumentIncreasing people’s resilience through social protection
Overseas Development Institute, 2016Climate-related shocks and stresses are posing significant obstacles to poverty reduction.DocumentAdaptation to climate change in megacities of Latin America
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014There is broad consensus that global climate change is inevitable. Its effects are manifested, among others, in a rise in average annual temperatures, the impacts of which also affect Latin America. Since Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the world’s most urbanized regions, urban spaces provide an important research area.DocumentAdaptation Strategy in Response to the New EU Sugar Regime 2006-2013
2006This report consists of seven chapters: Introduction (1); Fiscal and debt management (2); Strategic Sectorial Focus (3); Social Development and Poverty Reduction (4); Environmental Protection, Land Management and Disaster Mitigation (5); Cross-Cutting Issues (6); Managing the Adaptation Process (7).DocumentMeasuring ‘subjective resilience’: using people’s perceptions to quantify household resilience
Overseas Development Institute, 2015How should we measure a household’s resilience? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of ‘objective’ frameworks and methods of indicator selection.DocumentOptions for support to agriculture and food security under climate change
Elsevier, 2011This journal article highlights that agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.DocumentA role for innovation prizes to support adaptation to climate change?
Ideas to Impact, 2015The aim of this paper is to examine the role of innovation prizes in supporting adaptation to climate change in the context of development, in view of two parallel trends: First, a growing interest in applying innovation prizes to international development, and second, the increasing focus on ensuring that adaptation funding and implementation are achieving the goals of supporting the poorest aDocumentChoice, not control: Why limiting the fertility of poor populations will not solve the climate crisis
CARE International, 2014CARE paper outlining the need for a human rights based approach to family planning when discussed in climate mitigation and adaption contexts.DocumentSocial protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014This rapid literature review presents and synthesises the conceptual underpinnings and evidence on the relationship between social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.Pages