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Towards pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centers of low- and middle-income countries,'
Caroline Moser,D. Satterthwaite,R. Mearns,Andrew Norton +3 more
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Understanding and Measuring Social Capital: A Multidisciplinary Tool for Practitioners
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Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set the stage for impact, adaptation, and vulnerability assessment of climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity, and developed and applied scenarios in Climate Change Impact, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Assessment.
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Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology
TL;DR: Social capital has a definite place in sociological theory as mentioned in this paper, and its role in social control, in family support, and in benefits mediated by extra-familial networks, but excessive extensions of the concept may lead to excessive emphasis on positive consequences of sociability.