Lisa Schipper

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weADAPT's 15th Anniversary: The Future of Climate Change Adaptation

SEI marked the 20th anniversary of the Oxford Centre and the 15th anniversary of weADAPT with an event that addressed goals for and barriers to adaptation, and ideas to achieve greater progress.

 
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Great Adaptations Podcast

Great Adaptations Podcast

Listen to the Glacier Trust's Great Adaptations podcast featuring interviews with leading figures in the climate change adaptation and climate justice movement. 

 

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Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries

Based on a review of 34 interventions, this paper shows that adaptation interventions may reinforce, redistribute or create new vulnerability.

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Photo of a wreckage of a boat is seen stuck in solidified salts and sands at Lake Oroumieh. Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi / AP Photo. Source: http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/iran-in-a-race-to-save-largest-lake-from-drying-up

Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

This paper reviews the current theoretical scholarship on maladaptation and provides some specific case studies—in the Maldives, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Bangladesh—to advance the field.

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Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments

This vulnerabilty assessment framework was prepared by GIZ to provide decision-makers and adaptation implementers such as (local) government officials, development experts and civil society representatives with a structured approach and a sourcebook for assessing vulnerability to climate change. Furthermore, it provides a selection of methods and tools to assess the different components that contribute to a system’s vulnerability to climate change. 

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Review of climate change adaptation tools and methods

This report introduces readers to the topic of planning adaptation to climate change, and it draws out key issues that are especially relevant to countries in the Lower Mekong Basin.

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