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Many residents of Dar es Salaam live in informal settlements and are vulnerable to a wide range of climate threats, including sea-level rise and coastal erosion and flooding (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
4th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA4)
… Africa – to share and discuss knowledge about community-based adaptation (CBA) planning and practice.  Conference highlights Speaking … the need to find linkages between national policies on climate adaptation and local level activities.  The  programme (PDF)  for … changes so as to influence appropriate agricultural policies and adaptation strategies. The final plenary session discussed the next …
Article, 02 February 2010
Institutional Capacity, Climate Change Adaptation and the Urban Poor
… role of these stakeholders in combining support for climate change adaptation and improving the social, physical and economic wellbeing of … of specific tools, methods and approaches to deliver pro-poor adaptation. Relevant case studies and examples are used to show that climate change adaptation requires solutions based in improved institutional capacity …
Publication, 01 September 2008
Cover for 11501IIED.pdf
Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: A critique of the UNFCCC estimates
Publication, 01 August 2009
Cover for 10565IIED.pdf
Adapting Cities to Climate Change: understanding and addressing the development challenges
… body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income … Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change … in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and propose innovative agendas for adaptation. The book should be of interest to policy makers, …
Publication, 01 May 2009
Cover for G03040.pdf
Fonds d’Adaptation sous le KP: Vers une mise en oeuvre concrète de projets et de l’accès direct
Publication, 01 June 2010
Cover for X00024.pdf
The Human Dimension of Climate Adaptation: the importance of local and institutional issues
… This paper presents a conceptual framework that turns the mainstream adaptation discourse upside down, with understanding and respect for autonomous adaptation as the starting point for a new agenda to manage the human dimensions of climate change. It suggests that adaptation should be built on efforts to more effectively support …
Publication, 01 January 2009
CCAFS, together with partners, is trying to develop new ways to communicate climate change adaptation. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)
New ways to communicate climate change and adaptation - is it time for something “loopy”?
Insight, 19 October 2012
Cover for G02829.pdf
Books and resources related to community-based adaptation to climate change
… and other resources related to participation and community-based adaptation to climate change. Published in: Participatory Learning and Action 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change (December 2009). To read the full table of … Books and resources related to community-based adaptation to climate change …
Publication, 01 December 2009
Cover for 17047IIED.pdf
Adaptation in Africa: the global failure to deliver funding
Publication, 01 December 2008
Cover for G03008.pdf
Adaptation under the UNFCCC
… Adaptation under the UNFCCC …
Publication, 01 September 2009