Search
Results for " "
Displaying 15 of about 61 resultsIDS in focus, policy briefing 15:
This paper addresses the debate on the relationship between climate change and conflict. It brings a new light on the adaptation, risks and resilience issues and their relation to peace-building and innovation in household livelihoods and local and national institutions in response to climate stress and uncertainty. I…
Commonwealth Secretariat discussion paper number 5:
This paper addresses the human rights dimensions of climate change, urging a human rights approach be taken in climate change negotiations, through mitigation and adaptation strategies. It maps the landscape, explains the added value that a human rights lens brings to the discussions and suggests som…
Indonesia rising - Policy priorities for 2010 and beyond:
This brief addresses the vulnerability to multiple climate change hazards, such as more intense rainfall and sea-level rise, of economically productive areas and their adverse effects on food security, health, water resources, farming and coastal livelihoods, and forest and marine biodiversity.…
This document urges prompt and vigorous action for developing a strategy and implementing early measures that will facilitate adaptation to climate change in Ontario. It identifies many areas where adaptive measures and policies are already underway or are under consideration, and uses many of these to formulate 59 specific recommendations, which can be…
In response to the growing magnitude of climate change, this fact sheet outlines IFAD’s efforts to streamline climate change adaptation and mitigation into its programmes. It calls to listen to the voices of poor rural people in order to reduce the risks of climate change while accelerating progress towards a world without poverty.
It further describes…
This book gives expert guidance on all issues regarding security and emergency preparedness and response of water supply infrastructures. It addresses vulnerability assessment, revised procedures to improve response to emergencies, and premises security. It is intended at water and wastewater utility managers.
Topics covered include: (i) Types of inten…
This document maps the security implications of climate change in Africa in a holistic way by assessing the macro- and micro-level security risks in: (i) food security; (ii) water security; (iii) energy security; (iv) migration; and (v) natural disasters in the context of climate change and security. It attempts to identify the hot spots in Africa with…
This specific issue focuses on people living in a group of countries in which the incidence of hunger is particularly high and persistent, and which face particular challenges in meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets – namely countries in protracted crisis situation, characterized by recurrent natural disasters and/or conflict, longevity…
This document reports on a project estimating the exposure to environmental hazards and the adaptive capacity of communities at continuous geographic areas across North and South Darfur. It presents results in simple and readily interpretable maps that allow the identification of the most vulnerable geographic units, the comparison of vulnerability amon…
Arab human development report research paper series:
This report aims to present a comprehensive desk review and mapping exercise for an overview of the impact of climate change on the Arab region. It presents an assessment of projected impacts, vulnerability and adaptation of the Arab region in terms of change of (i) temperature and precipitation pat…
This paper identifies the main underlying causes of food insecurity as well as the complex factors specific to the region and considers their impact on national food production. It points at floods--and climate change threat--and droughts--and the lack of resilience to it--as the two principal recurrent hazards in the Horn of Africa and warns against t…
Capacity for water cooperation in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia:
This publication is intended to help the establishment and improve efficiency of joint bodies to facilitate transboundary water cooperation in the region, including floods protection. It provides: (i) a review of the current international legal basis for the establishment of…
This paper gives an insight into the World Food Programme's work in addressing weather-related hunger by helping communities prepare for and recover from major climate- and weather-related natural disasters, especially those that are already vulnerable and suffering from hunger, undernutrition and food insecurity. It describes actions that can be taken…
This pocket-sized book aims to inform and stimulate discussion at the family and community level in regard of the human consequences of climate change. It provides information on fundamental subjects like the difference between climate and weather, how climate patterns are measured and importantly, how society is affected by climate changes in terms of…
This research paper synthesizes the current developments regarding environmentally-driven human migration –and more specifically, migration caused by the environmental manifestations of anthropogenic climate change– seeking to expose its potential harmful effects in Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean.
The first section introduces the c…