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Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable groups to disasters and climate change: sustainable energy solutions in Quy Nhon City
… the coastal city of Quy Nhon, Vietnam. Although increasing attention is being paid to this issue, there are few studies that investigate the … conditions. This research also finds that, in spite of awareness of climate change and its impacts, adaptation measures are not being considered … Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable groups to disasters and climate change: sustainable energy solutions in Quy Nhon City …
Publication, 01 June 2014
Workshop participants touring the Stone Village in China (Photo: Irene Song)
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
News, 04 July 2016
PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change
Article, 01 December 2009
Venn diagram of LDCs
Least Developed Countries
Article, 30 April 2009
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Forest and social resilience to climate change. A brief primer on 'who is doing what'
… This primer focuses mainly on the prospects for climate change adaptation by forest dependent people and their institutions. Our assumption is that the capacity of these institutions will determine how successful … Forest and social resilience to climate change. A brief primer on 'who is doing what' …
Publication, 01 January 2006
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
… often focus on making cities better able to withstand the impacts of climate change. But there are other shocks and stresses affecting cities, … in their own countries), live in urban areas .  Forced displacement is also lasting longer – 25 years on average . So short-term emergency …
Insight, 11 May 2017
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… the publication, entitled 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development' . A product of research from … that improved agricultural productivity in dryland environments is possible by working with climatic uncertainty rather than seeking to … the environment." Many dryland people know how to live with climate change and work with variable rainfall. They recognise variability as an …
News, 27 April 2015
Lesotho's population is heavily dependent on agriculture. Drying river systems threaten a lack of drinking water for livestock (Photo: Jonas Merian, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Legalise Paris agreement
Article, 24 November 2015
Social learning on climate change and food security issues can take place anywhere - in schools, farmers' organisations, groups or in workshops. Credit: F. Fiondella
Making it real: social learning in practice
… practitioners working on development, we take great hope in seeing change borne from social learning and collective interaction. This is why a new Working Paper has reviewed lessons and tools linked to … better. Real social learning, we have argued through our work on climate change and social learning with the CGIAR Research Program on …
Insight, 09 December 2013
The Indonesian coastal city of Bandar Lampung is vulnerable to flooding and other climate risks. The ACCCRN programme has been working with government and community leaders to strengthen resilience (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Collaboration and communication: how research can help cities to build resilience
… Pacific are facing multiple shocks and stresses from disasters and climate change, and are building resilience in response to these. Better … an assumed linear relationship, in which the role of the researcher is to provide new information that can inform the holy grail of … Climate change …
Insight, 19 February 2015