Why gender matters in climate adaptation
Climate change does not affect all people equally. For adaptation to succeed, the social drivers of vulnerability have to be tackled head on.
A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity for aquatic agricultural systems in Timor-Leste
This paper considers how a rights-based approach broadens understanding of adaptive capacity while directing attention towards causes of exclusion and marginalisation.
Making Mobility Work for Adaptation to Environmental Challenges: Results from MECLEP global research
This comparative report of six countries empirically tests how migration can benefit or undermine adaptation to environmental and climate change, based on MECLEP research.
72-hour Emergency Assessment approach
This document provides an overview of the aims, applications and general method behind the 72-hour assessment method, by which WFP can respond quickly and appropriately to humanitarian disasters.
Ouranos
Ouranos is a Canadian non-profit organization that engages in focused, applied science in support of sound decisions related to climate change and its impacts.
M&E to enhance adaptation and reduce disaster risk
This PLACARD webinar examined some of the lessons learned from M&E emerging from CCA and DRR evaluation processes, and how we can ensure that learning can inform both practices.
Using foresight to reduce climate vulnerability
Foresight can be a valuable tool in both climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, as well a useful method to integrate the two approaches.
‘Watershared’ – Adaptation, mitigation, watershed protection and economic development in Latin America
Reciprocal watershed agreements are simple, grassroots versions of incentive-based conservation that help upper watershed forest and land managers to sustainably manage their resources.
Practical Answers: Knowledge sharing for development
Practical Answers (available online and as an app) provides information on a wealth of technical expertise in areas such as Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, Water and Sanitation and many more.
UK business opportunities in a changing climate
Climate change is presenting UK businesses with opportunities as well as risks, according to this report commissioned by the Environment Agency and produced by Acclimatise.
Migration, Environment and Climate Change
Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy is a project that aims to contribute to the global knowledge base on the relationship between migration and environmental change.
Using wellbeing indicators and climate information to assess adaptation effectiveness
How can we be sure that adaptation is effective? One option is to use a range of ‘wellbeing indicators’ alongside climate information to monitor and evaluate adaptation.
Migration as adaptation?
The issue discusses possible adaptation policies and current CC and development policy structures on human mobility in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Kenya, Mauritius, PNG and Vietnam.
Transforming disaster risk reduction
This article highlights key areas where efforts to reduce the underlying causes/drivers of vulnerability and risk need to be improved to create more inclusive, equitable and sustainable development.
PLACARD
PLACARD seeks to support the coordination of the Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction communities for coherent, mutually reinforcing and pragmatic planning and action.
Nation-building policies in Timor-Leste
This paper examines nation-building in the small island developing state of Timor-Leste in the context of disaster risk reduction, which necessarily includes climate change adaptation.
Climate Change and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
This article reviews climate change within the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR).
Disasters, climate change and development
This discussion brief examines the relationship between climate and disaster risk reduction, aiming to identify ways for them to work better together.
SREX
This report presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX).
Everyday Disasters and Everyday Heroes
Read here about Frontline: A programme that uniquely finds out from local people what threats they face.
When people move
Podcast by UK Climate Change and Migration Coalition: When people move. Understanding how climate change creates the movement of people
World Disasters Report
This year, the World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters ...
Disasters and Climate Change
Generating knowledge to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) with equitable, sustainable and resilient development, recognizing that development and DRR are interlinked.
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