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Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments – TAPESTRY
TAPESTRY explores how transformation may arise ‘from below’ in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty.
Uncovering ‘Community’: Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and Disaster Related Work
In all areas of academic or practical work related to disaster risk, climate change and development more generally, community and its...
Support to Improve Climate Research and Information Services in South Asia (SICRISA)
Support to Improve Climate Research and Information Services in South Asia' (SICRISA) is a two-year project which aims to increase the quality and quantity of climate change research from South Asia.
Strengthening Climate Resilience
Strengthening Climate Resilience has created the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Approach (CSDRM) for disaster risk managers, policy-makers and researchers. The CSDRM approach incorporates climate change resilience into the way we plan for, and respond to, natural disasters impacting vulnerable communities.
The Political Economy of Climate-Compatible Development
This project is based on the contention that understanding and working with the prevailing political economy is crucial to change the understanding and commitment of decision makers, to improve coordination, collaboration and mobilisation amongst key stakeholders, and to strengthen the institutions and institutional capacity to deliver climate compatible development.
Resilience as a Policy Narrative: Potentials and Limits in the Context of Urban Planning
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
The aim of this paper is to analyse the emergence of the concept of 'urban resilience' in the literature and to assess its potentials and limitations as an element of policy planning.
Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Published by: Routledge
Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines?
World Disasters Report 2014 – Focus on Culture and Risk
This year, the World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture.
Political Economy of Climate Compatible Development: Artisanal Fisheries and Climate Change in Ghana
Published by: IDS
Interest in prospects for policy processes that contribute to development, climate change adaptation and mitigation, known as ‘climate compatible development’, has been growing in response to increasing awareness of the impacts of climate change.