Research Papers

Adaptation Lessons from Past Experience – Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation, 2003 (Part 2)

Adaptation Opportunities, Barriers and Strategies in Developing Countries: Focus on Drought Management in Nigeria by A.I. Ayeni. Abrupt Climate Change Strategy, 2004

Adapting small-scale CDM sinks projects to low-income communities by Emily Boyd, Maria Gutierrez and Manyu Chang, March 2005, Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, Working Papers

Adopters, testers or pseudo-adopters? Dynamics of the use of improved tree fallows by farmers in western Kenya by Evelyne Kiptot a,b,*, Paul Hebinck b, Steven Franzel c, Paul Richards Agricultural System 2007

Adaptation to climate change in agriculture, forestry and fisheries: Perspective, framework and priorities Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2007

An Adaptation Mosaic: A sample of the emerging World Bank work in climate change adaptation by Ajay Mathur, Ian Burton and Maarten van Aalst, eds. 2004. World Bank Global Climate Change Team

Climate Change – Biodiversity and Livelihood Impacts by Hannah Reid, IIED, 2005

Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Exploring the Linkages by E. Lisa F. Schipper , July 2007. Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, Working Papers

Climate change and food security by P. J. Gregory,J. S. I. Ingram and M. Brklacich. October 2005 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2005).

Climate risk management in Africa: Learning from practice – International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), 2007.

Climate risk management in Africa: Learning from practice – The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), 2007

Creating an index of social vulnerability to climate change for Africa by Katharine Vincent, August 2004. Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research Working Paper 56

Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate by Sperling, F. and F. Szekely, 2005. Informal Discussion Paper prepared for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction on behalf of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group (VARG). Washington, D.C.

Drought in the African Sahel: long term perspectives and future prospects by Nick Brooks October 2004.

Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies by David S.G. Thomas, Chasca Twyman. Global Environmental Change 15 (2005) 115–124.

Ethnographic and participatory approaches to research on farmers’ responses to climate predictions by Carla Roncoli* CLIMATE RESEARCH Vol. 33: 81–99, 2006

Exploring Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture, by Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar, July 2005, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank

Farmer adaptation, change and & crisis’ in the Sahel by Michael J. Mortimore,William M. Adams, Global Environmental Change 11 (2001) 49, 57

How Will Agriculture Adapt to a Shifting Climate? – IFPRI Forum December 2006

Human strategies for coping with El Niño related drought in Amazônia by MORAN Emilio F. ADAMS Ryan, BAKOYEMA Bryn, FIORINI T Stefano, BOUCEK Bruce. Climatic Change, Volume 77, Numbers 3-4, August 2006

Increasing the Resilience of Hillside Communities in Bolivia: Has Vulnerability to Climate Change Been Reduced as a Result of Previous Sustainable Development Cooperation? by Carmenza Robledo, Martin Fischler, and Alberto Patiño Mountain Research and Development Volume 24, Issue 1 (February 2004)

Kenya Seed Fairs as a Drought Recovery Strategy in Kenya by Victor A. Orindi and Andrew Ochieng* IDS Bulletin, 2005 (Vol. 36) (No. 4) 87-102

Mapping climate vulnerability and poverty in Africa Report to the Department for International Development May 2006 – The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Poverty and Climate Change, Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation – (Part 1), 2003.

Realigning research and extension to focus on farmers’ constraints and opportunities by S.S. Snapp,M.J. Blackie, C. Donovan. Food Policy journal, 28 (2003) Issue (Month): 4 (August)

Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

The Role of Local Institutions in Reducing Vulnerability to Recurrent Natural Disasters and in Sustainable Livelihoods Development Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Rome, April 2004

Social Capital and Climate Change, by Neil Adger, 2001 Tyndall Centre Working Paper 8, Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, Working Papers

Sustainable livelihood approach for assessing community resilience to climate change: case studies from Sudan – AIACC Working Paper No.17 August 2005

Two degrees, One chance, – June 2007, Tearfund

Unjust waters: Climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities – 2007 ActionAid International

Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean: The threat from climate change to the environment and human development, – 2006, Third report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development.

Using an Asset-Based Approach to Identify Drivers of Sustainable Rural Growth and Poverty Reduction in Central America: A Conceptual Framework by Paul B. Siegel, World Bank, January 2005.

Vulnerability to climate stress – local and regional perspectives, – Proceedings of two workshops January 27-28, 2005, World Agroforestry Centre, Gigiri, Nairobi And February 14, 2005, KEFRI Research Centre, Kitui Siri Eriksen, Bernard Owuor, Elvin Nyukuri and Victor Orindi December 2005.

Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Disasters: A Conceptual Overview by Farhana Yamin, Atiq Rahman and Saleemul Huq*, IDS Bulletin Vol 36 No 4 October 2005

Vulnerability, risk and adaptation: A conceptual framework by Nick Brooks November 2003. Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, Working Papers

Who can eat information? Examining the effectiveness of seasonal climate forecasts and regional climate-risk management strategies by Coleen Vogel1, Karen O’Brien, CLIMATE RESEARCH Vol. 33: 111–122, 2006

Community-based Adaptation:A vital approach to the threat climate change poses to the poor May 2007 – IIED.

Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development and Equity Chapter 18 of Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, is the Working Group II (WGII) contribution to the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Facing up to Climate Change in South Asia by Alam, M. and L. A. Murray (2005), IIED Gatekeeper Series 118. IIED, London

Bridging the gaps: stakeholder-based strategies for risk reduction and financing for the urban poor , Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 19, No. 1, 115-142 (2007).

Reducing hazard vulnerability: towards a common approach between disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation by Frank Thomalla, Tom Downing, Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Guoyi Han and Johan Rockström1. Disasters, 2006, 30(1): 39-48. © Overseas Development Institute, 2006

Africa and Climate Change. Camilla Toulmin & Saleemul Huq , IIED 2005.

The Vulnerability of Science and the Science of Vulnerability , Susan L. Cutter, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 93(1), 2003.

Livelihood adaptation to risk: Constraints and opportunities for pastoral development in Ethiopia’s Afar region , Jonathan Davies,; Richard Bennett. Journal of Development Studies, 43:3, 490 – 511 April 2007

Life on the Edge: Vulnerability and Adaptation of African Ecosystems to Global Climate Change by Robert K. Dixon, Joel Smith and Sandra Guill.

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 8: 93–113, 2003.

On the Interactions Between Climate and Society by Michael H. Glantz, Population and Development Review, Vol. 16, Supplement: Resources, Environment, and Population: Present Knowledge, Future Options. (1990), pp. 179-200.

The clean development mechanism’s contribution to sustainable development: a review of the literature by Karen Holm Olsen. Climatic Change (2007) 84:59–73

Does the current Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) deliver its sustainable development claim? An analysis of officially registered CDM projects by Christoph Sutter & Juan Carlos Parreño. Climatic Change (2007) 84:75–90.

The impacts of climate change on the risk of natural disasters by Maarten K. van Aalst, Disasters, 2006, 30(1): 5-18. © Overseas Development Institute, 2006.

Disaster risk, climate change and international development: scope for, and challenges to, integration by Lisa Schipper and Mark Pelling, Disasters, 2006, 30(1): 19-38. Overseas Development Institute, 2006

Interim Report on the IPCC Expert Meeting on Assessment and Integrated Analysis of Adaptation and Mitigation WMO OFFICE, GENEVA, 20 – 22 MAY 2003

Assessing the Consequences of Climate Change for Food and Forest Resources: A View from the IPCC by William Easterling and Michael Apps. Climatic Change (2005) 70: 165–189

Governing Global Climate Change: Can We learn From the Past in Designing the Future? by W. Henry Lambrighr and Rosemary O’LearyPolicy Studies Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 1991 (50-60)

Rapid Climate Change and Society: Assessing Responses and Thresholds by Simon Niemeyer, Judith Petts, and Kersty Hobson. Risk Analysis Vol. 25 No 6, December 2005.

Coping strategy and vulnerability reduction to Climate Extremes Workshop on Local Coping Strategies and Technologies for Adaptation, November 2003.

Evolution of economy and environment: an application to land use in lowland Vietnam by W. Neil Adger, Ecological Economics 31 (1999) 365–379.

Institutional Adaptation to Environmental Risk under the Transition in Vietnam by W. Neil Adger Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 90, No. 4. (Dec., 2000), pp. 738-758.

Advancing a political ecology of global environmental discourses Adger by W. N., Benjaminsen, T. A., Brown, K., and Svarstad, H. 2001. Development and Change 32:681-715.

Social capital, collective action and adaptation to climate change by Adger, W. N. (2003) Social capital, collective action and adaptation to climate change. Economic Geography 79(4), 387-40.

Leaders, pushers and laggards in the making ofthe climate regime by Steinar Andresen, Shardul Agrawala, Global Environmental Change 12 (2002) 41–51.

Adapting to Climate Change: Social-Ecological Resilience in a Canadian Western Arctic Community by Fikret Berkes and Dyanna Jolly. Conservation Ecology 5(2): 18, 2001.

Local initiatives and adaptation to climate change by Ana V. Rojas Blanco, Disasters, 2006, 30(1): 140-147.

CDM implementation in Brazil’s rural and isolated regions: the Amazonian case by Kamyla Borges da Cunha & Arnaldo Walter & Fernando Rei. Climatic Change (2007) 84:111–129.

On the role of climate scenarios for adaptation planning by Suraje Dessai, Xianfu Lua, James S. Risbey. Global Environmental Change 15 (2005)