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Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)
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Climate responsive cities: a road towards the 'New Urban Agenda'?
A new book, written by local practitioners and edited by IIED, shows how cities across Asia are applying their own approaches to managing climate change risks, and finds that good governance underpins an effective response
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Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
How can urban planners deal with the unpredictable future impacts of climate change? IIED researchers visited two Indian cities to see how a learning-based approach can help
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Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Farming land on the edge of the Gorakhpur, India, can help boost the city's flood defences, support livelihoods and reduce migration, finds guest blogger Nivedita Mani
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Climate change governance in cities
Good governance is essential if cities are to become more resilient to climate change. Local authorities, citizen groups, and the private sector will need to work together, and with institutions at the national and global levels, to tackle this challenge
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Urban communities are devising their own solutions to build resilience
Community-led solutions to the challenges of climate change are creating more resilient city infrastructure, researchers have found
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Collaboration and communication: how research can help cities to build resilience
As cities in Asia face up to the challenges of a changing climate, municipal authorities are finding partnerships with researchers can help inform practice and policy
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Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier
Highlighting and assessing the urban impacts of climate change can help cities find a more consistent, multi-level approach to climate adaptation
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Ten projects receive funding for research into climate change resilience
Ten organisations have been selected to receive IIED funding for research into helping Asian cities adapt to climate change
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Strengthening knowledge on urban climate resilience
IIED’s partner ACCCRN is an eight-year, multi-country initiative working with cities across the world to increase resilience to climate change
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Climate change and urban health
As well as increasing loss of life and injury from extreme events, climate change will exacerbate health risks from diseases that are among the main causes of premature death in informal settlements
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To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability
Three new studies from Vietnam show how research can help governments devise solutions that help their citizens adapt to the effects of climate change.
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Climate change studies analyse risks and resilience in urban Vietnam
Three reports published today provide policymakers with concrete proposals to reduce the diverse threats that climate change poses to different communities in urban areas of Vietnam.
