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Forest and Farm Facility Annual Report 2021
… more variable rainfall, droughts, storms and flooding. They also face policy uncertainties and sometimes wildly fluctuating markets, among … achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and responding to climate change. It has been operating since 2012 and is now in its second phase …
Publication, 22 March 2022
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Demographic data as a tool for adaptation planning
… and dynamics is crucial for developing more targeted and effective adaptation policies and actions. Increasingly nuanced understanding of what drives human vulnerability to climate change recognises both physical hazards, which will change over time, … Demographic data as a tool for adaptation planning …
Publication, 01 December 2013
Outdoor workers in Da Nang are prone to heat stress. Credit: COHED.
To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability
Insight, 30 October 2013
Aerial view of a flooded city with destroyed housing and infrastructure
Connecting decarbonisation and social justice in cities
Project, 10 February 2023
The case study for Manizales, in Colombia, in a new book edited by IIED's David Satterthwaite focuses on innovative community-oriented environmental policy and a commitment to disaster risk reduction (Photo: Melissa Delzio, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can we transform our cities?
Insight, 19 April 2016
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Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city
… papers explore how participatory budgeting is being applied to climate change projects, how design is intersecting with participatory methods, … queer thinking. The 'Climate Change in Cities' papers examine the adaptation strategies of two Asian communities: riverside slum …
Publication, 20 October 2021
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L'Adaptation dans le cadre de la CCUNCC
… EBCI Policy Brief … Climate change … L'Adaptation dans le cadre de la CCUNCC …
Publication, 01 September 2009
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Mapping urban settlements and the risks of climate change in Africa, Asia and South America
… Chapter 5 of "Population dynamics and climate change". This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of … of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to curtail … Mapping urban settlements and the risks of climate change in Africa, Asia and South America …
Publication, 01 January 2009
Clothes hang on lines outside small poorly maintained houses
Introduction to building transformative urban resilience for all
… combination of inequitable urban growth and rapid and unpredictable climate change is resulting in a rapidly growing number of urban residents … resilience. These include: Towards more inclusive climate change adaptation (31(1) April 2019) Understanding the full spectrum of risk in …
Article, 01 April 2022
Pakistan's Sarhad Rural Support programme deals with constant uncertainty and disruptive events. Here goods are delivered to flood victims in Chitral (Photo: Gul Hamaad Farooqui, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What can Southern NGOs teach us about disruptive change?
… has been replaced by a challenging new agenda ; global action on climate change has high ambitions set by the Paris Agreement , while the impacts … the ecosystems of development – Mariteuw Chimère Diaw, Cameroon Adaptation is dancing to somebody else's music. Innovation is composing … Policy and planning …
Insight, 26 January 2016