Risk to resilience: How Zambian smallholders are using local knowledge and climate data to adapt their cropping strategies
Zambia, like most of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), is facing a future in which climate change will consistently negatively affect smallholder crop production.
Social Protection and Climate Change: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice
This article lays the foundation for this special issue on social protection and climate change, introducing and evaluating the ways in which the individual articles c
Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty (World Bank Publication)
Ending poverty and addressing climate change are the two defining issues of our time. Both are essential to achieving sustain- able global development.
Pushed to the limit: Evidence of climate change-related loss and damagewhen people face constraints and limits to adaptation
At the climate negotiations in Warsaw, Poland (Conference of the Parties (COP) 19th session – COP19) in December 2013, there is a mandate to establish institutional ar
Adaptive Social Protection: Making concepts a reality
Despite progress in the field of development over recent years, a combination of factors has led to ongoing and worsening poverty in some situations.
The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters 1995-2015
Over the last twenty years, the overwhelming majority (90%) of disasters have been caused by floods, storms, heatwaves and other weather-related events.
When Adaptation Is Not Enough: Paris Agreement Recognizes “Loss and Damage”
The Paris Agreement addresses the new and evolving issue of “loss and damage” that had previously been treated as a subcategory of adaptation.
Loss and damage: a guide for the confused
For many people this issue of ‘loss and damage’ seems to have come out of the blue and is still mired in confusion.
Household Economic Losses of Urban Flooding: Case Study of Can Tho City, Vietnam
This study examines the economic losses caused by urban flooding. It begins by
COP 20 Lima, Peru Researchers Talk about Loss and Damage
The Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage presents the COP 20 Lima, Peru Researchers Talk about Loss and Damage.
