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Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters in Asia: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report
Submitted by Robert Watt on Thu, 2012-04-19 16:22Year:
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This report highlights the key findings of the IPCC's Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change (SREX) Adaptation from an Asian perspective.
It includes an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development.
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Guidebook on National legislation for Adaptation to Climate Change
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2012-01-31 09:23Summary:
UNEP's Guidebook on National legislation for Adaptation to Climate Change is based on the outcome of a UNEP pilot project that was carried out in three South East Asian countries in 2009-2010 - Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam - is intended to serve as a tool to help decision-makers and legal drafters to incorporate measures for adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change into their national sustainable development policies, plans and programmes by creating the necessary legal, regulatory and institutional framework for such action.
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Establishment of a Tsunami Early Warning System in the Indian Ocean - The German Indonesian Contribution - GITEWS
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Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCOSummary:
The Sumatra earthquake of December 2004 was the second largest earthquake ever recorded by nstruments. The earthquake coda travelled around the world. After 12 minutes, it reached Potsdam and was automatically recorded and analysed. At this point in time, the first tsunami waves had not yet washed up the shores of Sumatra.
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Dr Thomas Zschocke
Tel.: + 49-228-815-0237
e-mail: zschocke@ehs.unu.eduProject Status:
Completed (2005 - September 2010)
Adaptive Social Protection: Mapping the Evidence and Policy Context in the Agriculture Sector in South Asia
Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2011-03-31 09:41Year:
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Framework for Community-Based Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment in Mountain Areas
Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2011-03-24 09:52Year:
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Abstract: People living in mountain ecosystems in the developing world are particularly vulnerable to climate change as a result of their high dependence on natural resources for their livelihoods, comparatively higher exposure to extreme events, and widespread poverty and marginalisation. However, little is known about the impacts of climate change on these communities, people's perceptions of change, or their capacity to adapt. In order to identify the key determinants for future adaptation, we need to have a much better understanding of these issues.
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Case Studies from South and Southeast Asia
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2011-03-02 07:09Year:
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Source No. 14/2010, edited by Neysa Setiadi, Jörn Birkmann and Philip Buckle, provides a compilation of joint papers focusing on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). Case Studies and conceptual discussion papers intend to trigger new approaches, scientific discussions and increased attention on exisiting DRR and CCA issues in South and Southeast Asia.
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Asia-Pacific Mountain Courier: Special Issue on ‘Youth and Climate Change’
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2011-02-08 20:01Year:
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The Asia-Pacific Mountain Courier's Special Issue on ‘Youth and Climate Change’, is prepared in the context of International Year of Youth (IYY) 2010-2011, CoP 16 to UNFCCC, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.
Gender and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation (Workshop Report)
Submitted by naomi.sleeper on Tue, 2011-02-08 19:40Year:
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Workshop Highlights: Asia-Pacific Gender Community of Practice Annual Learning Workshop, Negombo, Sri Lanka, 24 - 26 September 2008
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(excerpted from report Forward)
This report is a product of the 2008 Gender Community of Practice learning Event, organized by the UNDP Regional Gender Team, focusing on 'Gender and Climate Change: Impact and Adapatation'.
The vulnerability of women to the effects of climate change is largely due to their dependence on natural resources, their responsibility for water and food procurement and the
Too much - Too little Water: Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas and Central Asia
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2011-02-08 19:40Year:
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The feasibility study concludes that time is limited in terms of coping with dramatic challenges to livelihoods in the region. A cross-boundary collaborative programme needs to prioritise and focus on adaptation already by 2011-2015.
Integrated Model Development for Water and Food Security Assessments and Analysis of the Potential of Mitigation Options and Sustainable Development Opportunities in Temperate Northeast Asia
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The main deliverable of this project is a Food and Water Security Integrated Model system (FAWSIM). FAWSIM is built on the state-of-the-art climate change software SimCLIM. Given its open framework structure a series of food and water security related models were integrated into the system, including DSSAT, SWAT, PDSI, FSI, and ZUD.
Climate change scenarios derived from 21 IPCC AR4 GCMs, and the related observed climate, land cover, and socio-economic data were also incorporated into the system.
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Objectives
(1) The main objective of this APN Comprehensive Research Project (CRP) was to develop an integrated model system to assess the potential mitigation options and sustainable development opportunities in relation to water & food security at the local scale, in order to provide the policy-makers with required information to achieve regional sustainable development.
(2) This CRP also aimed to build capacity and raise awareness through the participatory assessment of stakeholders and the dissemination of the project findings and models.
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The following outputs were produced through the research project: 1) Global cropland drought risk assessment; 2) Climate change impact on maize production and adaptation option assessment; 3) a Food security index and its application in Jilin province; 4) Partial equilibrium food balance model development and application in China; 5) Water footprint analysis for Changchun city, Jilin province; and 6) Self-Organizing Maps Statistical Downscaling method development.
