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Addressing the Challenge: Recommendations and Quality Criteria for Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change
Submitted by JulianneBG on Tue, 2010-06-29 06:03Year:
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The following report is based on the acknowledgement that climate change is a fact (see IPCC 2007) and that it must be seen as a threat to human society. Even if a reduction of green house gas emissions will be achieved in the future, changes in the climate that have been set in motion up to the present will increase the effects that are already visible today: Increases in temperature, variations in precipitation, melting of glaciers, sea level rise and particularly – more intensive weather related extreme events, such as tropical storms, floods, droughts and heat waves are unavoidable.
Competitive Cities and Climate Change
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2010-04-20 04:09Year:
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Based on statistical data from the OECD regional and metropolitan databases, this report discusses the relationships between cities and climate change, the rationale for taking action at the urban scale, the effectiveness of some local strategic and sectoral policy tools in addressing climate change issues as well as local finance and growth and job opportunities from the green economy.
Climate Change: Learning from Grassroots Coping Strategies
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-12-11 03:49
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Built-in resilience: learning from grassroots coping strategies Fifth Urban Research Symposium 2009
This paper attempts to establish the relations between adaptation, disaster risk reduction and coping strategies for urban areas. It summarizes some of the existing coping strategies of the urban poor in Korail area – the largest informal settlement in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The paper discusses how local planning, adaptation, and governance mechanisms can support the existing coping strategies in urban areas.
