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Addressing human vulnerability to climate change: Toward a ‘no-regrets’ approach
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In this article, a conceptual framework is proposed to address human vulnerability to climate change, drawing upon social risk management and asset-based approaches, the conceptual framework provides a unifying lens to examine links between risks, adaptation, and vulnerability.Abstract:
This paper presents and applies a conceptual framework to address human vulnerability to climate change. Drawing upon social risk management and asset-based approaches, the conceptual framework provides a unifying lens to examine links between risks, adaptation, and vulnerability. The result is an integrated approach to increase the capacity of society to manage climate risks with a view to reduce the vulnerability of households and maintain or increase the opportunities for sustainable development. We identify ‘no-regrets’ adaptation interventions, meaning actions that generate net social benefits under all future scenarios of climate change and impacts. We also make the case for greater support for community-based adaptation and social protection and propose a research agenda.read more
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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health
Nick Watts,W. Neil Adger,Paolo Agnolucci,Jason J. Blackstock,Peter Byass,Wenjia Cai,Sarah Chaytor,Tim Colbourn,Matthew Collins,Adam Cooper,Peter M. Cox,Joanna Depledge,Paul Drummond,Paul Ekins,Victor Galaz,Delia Grace,Hilary Graham,Michael Grubb,Andy Haines,Ian Hamilton,Alasdair Hunter,Xujia Jiang,Moxuan Li,Ilan Kelman,Lu Liang,Melissa C. Lott,Robert Lowe,Yong Luo,Georgina M. Mace,Mark A. Maslin,Maria Nilsson,Tadj Oreszczyn,Steve Pye,Tara Quinn,My Svensdotter,Sergey Venevsky,Koko Warner,Bing Xu,Jun Yang,Yongyuan Yin,Chaoqing Yu,Qiang Zhang,Peng Gong,Hugh Montgomery,Anthony Costello +44 more
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Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes
TL;DR: In this article, the advantages and limits of resilience are assessed in a critical manner, and it is shown that resilience is not a pro-poor concept, and the objective of poverty reduction cannot simply be substituted by resilience building.
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Planning the resilient city: Concepts and strategies for coping with climate change and environmental risk
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Adaptation to climate change in Africa: Challenges and opportunities identified from Ethiopia
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Extreme vulnerability of smallholder farmers to agricultural risks and climate change in Madagascar
Celia A. Harvey,Zo Lalaina Rakotobe,Nalini S. Rao,Radhika Dave,Hery Razafimahatratra,R. Rabarijohn,Haingo Rajaofara,James L. MacKinnon +7 more
TL;DR: Urgent technical, financial and institutional support is needed to improve the agricultural production and food security of Malagasy farmers and make their livelihoods resilient to climate change.
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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review
TL;DR: The Stern Review as discussed by the authors is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue, conducted by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank.
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Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability
Barry Smit,Johanna Wandel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of adaptation of human communities to global changes, especially climate change, in the context of adaptive capacity and vulnerability is presented, focusing on scholarship that contributes to practical implementation of adaptations at the community scale.
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Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change
TL;DR: The authors argue that societies have inherent capacities to adapt to climate change, but these capacities are bound up in their ability to act collectively, and they argue that this capacity is limited by the nature of the agents of change, states, markets and civil society.