Fragility and conflict

Disaster risk reduction in a context of exposure to risk combined with insufficient coping capacity of the state, system and/or communities to manage, absorb or mitigate those risks.

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This report explains the ways in which climate change may increase future migration, and the risks associated with such migration. It also examines the way some of the migration that will arise from climate change may enhance the capacity of communities

SOPAC miscellaneous report 678:

This Fiji case study provides an understanding of the relationship between disasters and poverty in selected Asia Pacific regions. It offers a study method for the use of other Pacific Island countries and territories in

This book aims at raising the awareness for dialogue on environment and migration at the inter-governmental scale. It addresses practical applications that could be adopted by policy-makers or applied by institutions, including tools which could be

This draft study discusses how climate change is likely to influence population displacement, migration and settlement patterns and examines how this will impact development in five sub-regions of Asia and the Pacific. It argues that if migration due to

Oxfam briefing paper 133:

This report addresses the need to adopt a new approach to humanitarian disasters which focuses on preparing communities to prevent and deal with hazards, such as drought, before they strike, rather than relying mainly on short

This case-bound book draws upon experiences around the world reflecting how people are using climate information to improve their lives, through climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies. In this book, over 100 authors are relating

High-level experts forum 'How to feed the world in 2050', Rome, 12-13 October 2009:

This paper adresses climate change mitigation and adaptation as a key issue for agriculture and food production, especially in climate-vulnerable developing countries

This study recommends cost-effective adaptation responses that could build greater climate resilience into the agriculture sector in Asia and the Pacific. It uses predictions of global climate models to develop scenarios to 2050 for Asia and to derive

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