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Displaying 120 of about 268 resultsThe conference will cover many aspects of meteorological and oceanographic research in the Australasian region and will include six special sessions each with a keynote address:
- Extreme weather in the Australasian region – from floods to droughts
- Impact and meteorology of the main climate drivers (ENSO, SAM, Monsoon)
- Using high resolution models…
This publication illustrates the results of a study conducted under the Climate and Disaster Resilience Initiative (CDRI) in Chennai City, India. It assesses the city's vulnerability to climate-related hazards (e.g. floods, cyclones, heat waves, droughts) along with the effects of urbanization, and attempts to unveil the capacity of its urban infrastruc…
This document addresses the mechanisms and policies that can be used to support improvements in generating, disseminating, and using climate information to respond to the direct effect that extreme climatic events, such as droughts and floods, as well as changes in the mean climate, have on crops and livestock and, thus, on people’s livelihoods. It pres…
This document is the report of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the work of the Conference of the Parties to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session. It contains the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 64/202 and the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in those…
In Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society A - mathematical, physical and engineering sciences:
This article addresses the impacts of a changing climate on agricultural production. It attempts to provide a realistic evaluation of the steps needed for proactive adaptation to the additional stresses that climate change will bring to food systems…
Policy research working paper 5491:
This study attempts to capture both direct and indirect effects of disasters and illuminates the implicit costs associated with some of the coping strategies through a fully reduced form analysis at the household level. In particular, it examines the effect of natural disasters on household consumption in Vietnam, u…
This book chronicles the memorable saga of the famed bushmen of the Kalahari, at the exact epicenter of Africa's drought, in their widely publicised recent battle with the government of Botswana. Doing so, it explores the larger story of what many feel has become the primary resource battleground of the twenty-first century: the supply of water. It illu…
This report addresses river flow management as a vital element to protecting communities from the worst impacts of climate change and its results in changes to sea level, rainfall distributions, flood and drought frequency and intensity, storm severity, or land-ice coverage, and to achieving international goals on poverty reduction. It highlights the se…
This edition analyses the 2009 disaster figures based on the EM-DAT database, with comparisons to previous years, providing an evidence base to the international community on the burden of disease and related health issues due to disasters and conflicts, in order (i) to assist humanitarian action at both national and international levels; (ii) to ration…
This report explores the implications of climate change for pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in Ethiopia and Mali. It is intended to support the work of NGOs, policy makers and researchers to improve coherence in efforts linking climate change with disaster risk reduction (DRR) and food security and livelihoods (FSL).
Pastoral households in Ethiopia…
Trimester report, period November 2009 – January 2010:
This report highlights the issues and progress in the execution of the Nepal Hazard Risk Assessment (NHRA) project. It summarises the activities carried out in terms of data collection, generation and preparation. It also reports on the workshops conducted on hazard assessment methodology for eart…
IFPRI Discussion Paper 01013:
ASARECA has recently carried out a study to enhance the understanding of climate change in the 10 ASARECA member countries. This report profiles the available climate change-related datasets and their accessibility and procurement details in the 10 ASARECA member countries. The report additionally assesses the incorporatio…
The UNCCD Secretariat is leading the writing of a section of the UN Fourth World Water Development Report (WWDR4) addressing/highlighting the impacts of Desertification/land degradation and drought (DLDD) on water resources. Therefore, a consultant is required to support the Secretariat in undertaking this assignment.
Within the limits of delegated res…
Marrakech, Morocco - Better regional integration will enhance resilience and reduce shared risks in the MENA region, said global leaders at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa today.
Brian Duperreault, President and Chief Executive Officer, Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), USA; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on the M…
"They've chosen to make changes and do things differently, and that's what's needed to confront the challenge of climate change" said Antonio Hill from Oxfam, in a report by the Associated Press (AP) on Tabi, a village trying to adapt to a changing climate, located 250km south of Cancun, where the UN climate change talks are being held.
"Adaptation is…