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Cover for G03337.pdf
CBA6 Programme (DRAFT)
Publication, 01 March 2012
Cover for G03350.pdf
CBA 6 Sessions, Session Chairs, Abstracts and Presenters
Publication, 01 April 2012
When infrastructure is not provided, or not affordable, the urban poor find their own way around the problem, as in Delhi, India, where electricity is tapped
Urban crisis response needs a humanitarian sector shake-up
… in providing shelter, water, food, education, and healthcare. Cash-based approaches to humanitarian emergencies are one way in which the … action with long-term development. Given the likely impact of climate change on cities, approaches that combine crisis preparedness and crisis …
Insight, 15 December 2017
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal treaty on combating climate change – the Paris Agreement  in 2015 have set the stage for a 'new … many of the themes of the recent 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation  held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the theme of …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Annual report 2007/08
… human face of sustainable development. Featured project highlights Climate change Making adaptation planning fully democratic:  thanks to an … Human settlements Supporting slum dwellers’ savings plans:  community savings schemes and initiatives can improve life dramatically …
Page, 23 December 2008
Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world
… be, but are much weaker at framing how things actually are and how change occurs in reality. In addition there is little evidence of … the natural foundations of human life is at least as significant as climate change. From understanding to action The MA had a rather modest … 'ecosystem services' had far less political and public interest than climate change. In spite of this, in the last 10 years it has been …
Insight, 09 October 2015
A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)
The end of desertification?
… from the late 1960s to the 1990s were the most dramatic example of climate variability in the 20th century. Until recently one word – … The inability of desertification to explain social and environmental change in the Sahel is not an isolated case. The concept of … on a global scale. Existing global maps of desertification are often based on subjective assessments by experts. These maps cannot be …
Insight, 29 September 2016
Cover for G02790.pdf
2011 CBA flyer
… Flyer for the 5th international Community based adaptation conference … Climate change …
Publication, 01 October 2010
Cover for G02769.pdf
CBA 2011 flyer
Publication, 01 August 2010
Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge
… conditions ensures traditional practices are robust and adaptable to climate change. Such treasured knowledge needs protection from outside interests … and other support, and helps disseminate findings to policymakers. At community level, IIED and partners found people holding traditional …
Article, 09 November 2009