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By strengthening the capacity of vulnerable communities, the project aims to increase the resilience of poor people to cope with and...
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This research aims to analyse the capacity of different categories of pastoral people to adapt to climate change.
Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration Between Malian Communities and Scientific Organizations to Identify and Implement...
This material is largely based on the ACCCA project Synthesis Report Next steps
1 Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way One approach to understanding climate...
Back to: Sub-Module 1.2 - Institutional policy matrix Adaptation to climate change is not only multidimensional, encompassing various impacts,...
Back to Adaptation Targets The Climate Change Adaptation Targets (CCAT) in Mongolia Project is being implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center.
Nepal baseline vulnerability assessment and social indices Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration between Malian Communities...
The 12th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) was held in Johannesburg on 7-12 June 2008.
Annie Bonnin Roncerel is the manager the UNITAR climate change programme which includes NAPA technical support, ACCCA pilot actions and the Climate...
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We see adaptation a process of socio-institutional learning relevant for specific contexts, and producing adaptation outcomes and processes...
Current Climate and hazards
Some thoughts on my impending PhD study: Environmental change has always affected civilizations and hence business . The rate of climate change...
Process of developing a motif was interesting - had difficult questions to ask. This developed an understanding that communication would be key to developing adaptation messages.
This interactive user guide is being developed to produce CIRCE project deliverable D13.2.1 Foundatation paper on adaptation options and screening.
This project was carried out under the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)] which was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign...
The participant list can be downloaded: here (in case you lost your original version!) The session by session agenda of the workshop can be found here Presentations
The purpose of this page is to gather information that will be useful to Sida for conducting a quick screening of the effects of climate change...
Facing the uncertainty inherent in making a decision about a future which is not entirely known or understood will require specific consideration...
It is likely to be a participatory module that will coach people through questions related to: 1) the aim of climate adaptation? (e.
POLICY BRIEF : Effective use of climate science to improve adaptation in Africa
This site will be developed by the 2009 students, who are encouraged to add links to relevant material, upload summaries of papers read in class...
To introduce the tools currently available for Adaptation To establish a collaborative space to organize, share and disseminate user-developer...
IAVS offers courses in the field of climate change which include: A Masters in the management and economics of climate change; A short course...
The following guidance summarizes the results of the workshop held from March 31st to April 11th in Cape Town, South Africa for the working group...
1 Audience 2 Purpose of the guide 3 Links to pages 4 Next steps Great... so you are someone who works with climate data to generate new...
Follow this link for findings from the Bolivia NCAP project on the vulnerability of systems of production and human health around Lake Titicaca and perceptions of risk and change.
The chart on the left shows the variation in monthly mean air temperatures for Ghana as a whole. As can be seen, incremental temperatures in...
The impact assessments and scenarios developed in the context of this project all confirm the findings and conclusions from previous studies...
The workshop was organized jointly by Practical Action, the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Agenda and Participants
One conclusion that can be drawn from this experience is that not all policy and decision processes can be informed by climate change considerations.
Based on the results and findings from the studies and reports, it is recognized that urgent actions are needed to prepare Mongolia for the potential...
The question of whether climate change will happen has been replaced with even more sobering questions: how great will the change be, and how...
The idea is for Climatic Change Letters to be a rapid publication vehicle for brief articles (about four journal pages), aiming for a submission-to-publication time of 4 months.
The major concern in climate adaptation planning tends to focus on evaluating current risks and developing effective strategies in response to those risks.
Adaptation to climate variability and change is a social process. It requires us to assess and respond to past climatic impacts, to increase...
Read the information on this page Climate science, projections and interpretation and follow the links there for additional resources.
See the Briefing Page of the Climate Change Explorer for Users here Download a brief for the Climate Change Explorer here or download the tool...
The Pan-African START Secretariat (PASS) promotes collaboration within the African research community for sound scientific assessments of the...
We know that climate change disproportionately affects the poorest people in the world, who not only have the least capacity to respond and adapt...
The ACCCA project brings stakeholders and scientific communities of the developing world together to enable and support effective adaptation...
Adaptation to climate change requires understanding of social processes. It means that we need to assess and respond to past climatic impacts,...
The SEI Oxford centre focuses on adaptive resource management, particularly related to climatic risks, with expertise in water, food security and livelihoods.
This project aims to develop a community-driven adaptation plan of action, as well as to facilitate the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation...
The Nigerian coast is one of the low lying lagoonal Western African coasts, which is likely to experience severe impacts from flooding as a result...
A new section! There seems to be a lot of demand to know more about the institutional landscape of adaptation; who are the major actors, what...
Differences in background and technical expertise Approaching a diverse range of stakeholders that comprises diversity of disciplines, training...