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Climate Change
Adaptation: The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Gambia: Agencies oriented on DRR component of PAGE
3 Feb 2012, NDMA, Gambia - gov
The gov launches the Programme for Accelerated Growth and Employment as the development blue print and strategy for the Gambia, 2012-2015, fully incorporating cross cutting issues of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation as development imperative and priority...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.1 [PDF, 104Kb]Disaster risk reduction is an integral objective of environment related policies and plans, including for land use natural resource management and adaptation to climate change
- E-learning course on safe and resilient cities06-29 Feb 2012, United States of America (Washington D.C.)
- E-learning course on cities and climate change06-17 Feb 2012
- The 4th international symposium on hydraulic structures (4th IAHR)09-11 Feb 2012, Portugal (Porto)
- Postgraduate courses on 'Building resilience to climate change'UN-CECAR, Japan (Tokyo)
- MA programme on sustainable urban governance and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
- MA Environmental security and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
Teaching disaste risk reduction with interactive methods: book for head of class teachers, grades V-IX2011, ECHO; Min of Edu and Science, Georgia - gov; UNICEF
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning: a guide for practitioners2011, UNDP; UNEP
From vulnerability to resilience: a handbook for programming design based on field experience in Nepal2012, Practical Action
Changing climate, changing disasters: pathways to integration2012, Christian Aid; DFID; IDS; Plan Intl
Exposure of the population to natural hazardsAug 2011, UNU-EHS
Climate change vulnerability map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
Multiple climate hazard map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Disaster reduction and recovery specialist, P3Niger (Niamey), BCPR-UNDP
- Natural resources management and climate change advisorEthiopia (Addis Ababa), Save the Children U.S.
- Technical specialists - Resilience in the Limpopo river basinMozambique , ARD
External Online Resources
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- Adaptation atlas
- Adaptation Database and Planning Tool (ADAPT)
- Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)
- Adaptation Partnership: Review of existing and planned adaptation actions (by region and country)
- Best practices in adapting to climate change: Online professional development community
- Business Link: Climate Resilience Toolkit
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- CAP-NET: IWRM and climate change
- CARE: Community-based adaptation toolkit
- Caribbean Risk Management Initiative
- Climate and Disaster Governance (CDG)
- Climate change adaptation: topic guide - Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC)
- Climatefundsupdate.org
- ClimatePrep: adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations (WWF)
- CSDi: Compilation of 300 hands-on field activities for community based adaptation
- DEFRA UK: Understanding adaptation
- Dialogue on climate change adaptation for land and water managment
- Disaster risk and climate change (UN/ISDR)
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Earth journalism toolkit
- East Asia and Pacific: A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening DRM
- Eclipse Africa
- Eldis: community-based adaptation exchange
- FAO: Climate and flood forecast applications in agriculture
- FAO: Climate change and risk management
- FAO: Climate impact on agriculture (CLIMPAG)
- Gateway to the UN System's work on climate change: understanding adaptation
- gendercc - women for climate justice platform for information, knowledge and networking
- Globalislands.net special report: disappearing islands
- IAVS: plate-forme de ressources sur les changements climatiques en Afrique (in French)
- IMCORE: initiatives to manage coastal risks linked to climate change
- India Environmental Portal: Climate change and natural disasters
- Integrated Risk Governance Project
- IRI: Climate Predictability Tool (CPT)
- IRI: Climate risk knowledge for water
- Knowledge network on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
- NICCD blog: Notes on ICTs, climate change and development
- Norway's guide to climate change adaptation
- OIKOS, capacitación para la sostenibilidad
- PACC-Oasis - Projet adaptation au changement climatique au Maroc pour des Oasis résilientes
- Regional climate outlooks
- ReliefWeb: humanitarian implications of climate change
- Selemat Project
- Special report: managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation (IPCC)
- TckTckTck: A global alliance of actors calling for a fair climate change deal
- The Cancun Agreements: Adapting to the impacts of climate change (UNFCCC)
- The gender and disaster sourcebook
- The Norwegian Climate Adaptation Programme
- Training material: climate change vulnerability & adaptation (C3D project)
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- UKCIP Adaptation Wizard
- UNDP: Community-based adaptation
- UNFCCC: Adaptation Private Sector Initiative (PSI)
- UNFCCC: adaptation to climate change
- UNFCCC: National communications Annex I
- UNFCCC: Non-Annex I national communications
- Voice of South climate change blog, Bangladesh
- Weatherathome
- Wetlands and climate change adaptation
- WHO and UNEP: Health and Environment Linkages Initiative (HELI), climate change risk for policymakers
- WHO: Health and climate change
- WikiADAPT
- World Bank: A new way of rice cultivation - online toolkit
- WRI: Vulnerability & adaptation database
