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… A growing number of studies on the impacts of climate change and potential adaptation options are becoming available. However, … Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action … Participatory scenario development for translating impacts of climate change (PLA 60) …

… fine balance between people and dryland ecosystems. About how life is lived by the turning of dry and rainy seasons, and by the uneven … [PDF] , often building on centuries of understanding of ecosystem and climate dynamics to create livelihoods based on a portfolio of diverse … to learn from people who have lived with extreme cycles of climate change for generations. From them, we can discover how to live with a …

… Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement in place, there is much discussion on the scale of funding needed to deliver these … to come from global funds – for instance those set up to support climate change adaptation and mitigation or to tackle specific diseases such as … Can global funds be accountable at the local level? …

… – for disaster risk reduction, for post-disaster rebuilding and for climate change adaptation. The paper by Diane Archer and Somsook Boonyabancha … atrisk households. The paper by Cassidy Johnson reviews the roles of local civil society groups in Turkey after the 1999 earthquakes. And the … Community-driven disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in urban areas …

… the struggle by low-income groups to get housing and basic services is often a struggle to get land on which to build or to get tenure of … finance that they can draw on as and when needed. The journal’s Climate Change section includes papers on migration, the implications of … New issue of 'Environment and Urbanization' - Vol 21, No 2. 'Secure land for …