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Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia
Posted on: 18 January 2013
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START promotes research-driven capacity building to advance knowledge on global environmental change in Africa and Asia-Pacific. With funding from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, START is supporting five interdisciplinary research teams to conduct research on integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) for resilient development in South Asia. Under this broad research theme, specific projects aim to address three sub-themes: Institutional arrangements and governance structures that influence the degree of flexibility and sustainability of DRR across varying scales; Policy innovations that promote convergence of DRR and CCA into policy and practice at varying scales; The changing nature of development factors, which shape vulnerability to disasters.
Mobilising investment in low carbon, climate resilient infrastructure
Posted on: 6 December 2012
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This paper addresses several broad issues for governments aiming to encourage private sector investment in low-carbon climate resilient infrastructure, in both developed and developing world contexts.
City resilience in Africa: A ten essentials pilot
Posted on: 6 December 2012
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Lacking both early-warning systems and risk-reduction budgets, medium-sized towns in Africa are poorly equipped to respond to emergencies provoked by natural disasters, rural-urban migration and ecosystem destruction, according to a new United Nations report.
Future proofing cities: Risks and opportunities for inclusive urban growth in developing countries
Posted on: 3 December 2012
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This report, published by Atkins in unique partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID) and University College London (UCL), assesses the risks to cities from climate hazards, resource scarcities, and damage to ecosystems and how they can act now to future proof themselves. Covering 129 cities, totalling 350 million people in 20 countries, this report identifies practical measures that cities can take to now manage these future risks.
Delivering transformational change 2011-21: Implementing the CARICOM ‘Regional Framework for Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change’
Posted on: 30 November 2012
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The Implementation Plan identifies priority activities under each of the Regional Framework’s five strategic elements and 20 goal areas, covering sectors such as agriculture, water, forestry, coastal and marine resources, energy and health. It also identifies capital and revenue costs for each action, allocates responsibilities and outlines functional cooperation between regional and national agencies, and sets out a monitoring and evaluation process.
Synthesis report on urban climate resilience
Posted on: 29 November 2012
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This report opens with a short overview of the critical role for cities in responding to climate change followed by an outline of climate ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’ in an urban context. It identifies areas and knowledge gaps for four key topics: risk and uncertainty; governance; people, and place. For each topic, areas for more detailed consideration in future URBAN-NEXUS activities are suggested.
An Annex of case studies is also available. Examples of case studies and research are presented throughout the report to illustrate relevant sections. Summaries of all of the information received on case studies and partnership initiatives are presented in this annex.
The synthesis report informed discussions at the first URBAN-NEXUS Dialogue cafe held in Glasgow, 29-30 May 2012. A follow-up report from this event is available online here.
The relevance of “resilience”
Posted on: 1 November 2012
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The paper argues that current ways of portraying resilience are not useful as a guide in diagnosing people’s vulnerability, and are also too vague to help designing any policies or programmes for improving resilience, because they allow anything to be called ‘resilience building’.
Options for including disaster resilience in post-2015 development goals
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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This paper, from the Overseas Development Institute, considers options for including disaster resilience in a post-2015 development framework. It sets out potential indicators and targets for a specific goal on disaster resilience, as well as considering the opportunities for building disaster resilience into indicators for other sector goals, and what these might be. It looks at how to measure these, what baselines exist and whether data are available. It also examines options for including humanitarian assistance within a new framework.
Resilience: New utopia or new tyranny? Reflection about the potentials and limits of the concept of resilience in relation to vulnerability reduction programmes
Posted on: 15 October 2012
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Resilience is becoming influential in development and vulnerability reduction sectors such as social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Policy makers, donors and international development agencies are now increasingly referring to the term. In that context, the objective of this paper was to assess in a critical manner the advantages and limits of resilience. While the review highlights some positive elements, in particular the ability of the term to foster integrated approach across sectors, it also shows that resilience has important limitations. In particular it is not a pro-poor concept, and the objective of poverty reduction cannot simply be substituted by resilience building.
Integrative risk management in a changing world – Pathways to a resilient society. Davos, Switzerland, 26-30 August 2012
Posted on: 15 October 2012
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The 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference provided an opportunity to discuss new findings and exchange experiences about the broad spectrum of risks societies are facing today in 11 plenary sessions and 69 parallel and special sessions, and 11 workshops. Material from the conference can be found online, including a short summary of the talks, the presentation slides given as well as the video recorded Keynote Presentations. A collection of the short and extended abstracts can also be found.
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