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This publications focuses on 20 core countries with high vulnerability to natural hazards and low economic resilience to cope with disaster impacts including anticipated climate change and variability: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti

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This paper approaches the challenges of climate change from the point of view of its impact on hunger and nutrition. It presents the sophisticated early warning and vulnerability analysis tools that WFP uses and shares to predict and map the risk of

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This issue addresses disaster risk and climate change through a series of case studies and research summaries focusing on increasing 'natural' disasters, such as droughts and floods, as well as on people’s vulnerability to already existing hazards in

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This publication presents the initial lessons learnt from four pilot cities carrying out an assessment of their vulnerability to climate change: Esmeraldas in Ecuador, Kampala in Uganda, Maputo in Mozambique and Sorsogon City in the Philippines. It

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences early edition, sustainability science:

This study considers losses from extreme weather events as an indicator of a state's overall vulnerability. It argues that large-scale impacts on human development

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This document includes brief case studies which identify “natural solutions”, which are often an essential contribution to cost effective climate change adaptation and mitigation. They emphasize the role of natural systems for regulating water flow

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Social development papers, social dimensions of climate change, no. 116:

This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study and offers emerging findings on policy and institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in

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Case study on the background, concept and implementation of disaster risk
management in the context of the GTZ-Programme for rural development (PRODER):

The main goal of this case study is to present and systematise experience with the disaster risk

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