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1 May 2018
Published by: All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of climate related uncertainty. This issue draws heavily from the work of the Research Council of Norway (RCN) funded project 'Climate Change, Uncertainty and Transformation'.
23 April 2018
9 January 2018
Published by: IDS
The semi-arid district of Kachchh in Gujarat, India is known for its erratic rainfall, water scarcity, and droughts. Climate change has intensified extreme temperature and rainfall patterns and also led to changes to the long coastline.
1 January 2018
Published by: Elsevier
The article shows that as a complex socio-political challenge, water quality decline is centrally shaped by the intensifying linkages between urban and peri-urban forms of development and as a result deserves central attention as part of both these debates.
1 January 2018
Published by: IDS
The semi-arid district of Kachchh in Gujarat, India is known for its erratic rainfall, water scarcity, and droughts. Climate change has intensified extreme temperature and rainfall patterns and also led to changes to the long coastline. These are affecting not only the lives and livelihoods of local people, but also threatening the vibrant ecosystem of Kachchh.
TAPESTRY explores how transformation may arise ‘from below’ in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty.
20 November 2017
Published by: IDS and LSTM
Development practitioners and scholars have often overlooked the importance of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in their work on...
23 October 2017
Published by: STEPS Centre
In the last few decades, mangroves have attained significant environmental, climatic and therefore economic importance. As environmental assets, they have given rise to different regimes of conservation, valuation and marketisation in various parts of the world. These processes are associated with new relations of power, dispossession and contestation.
1 September 2017
22 May 2017
Published by: Weaver Press
For the past two decades, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources. This book explores how ideas of IWRM are being translated and adapted in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.