Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The mission at Kew Gardens is to understand and protect plants and fungi, for the wellbeing of people and the future of all life on Earth.
Place-based Climate Action Network
The Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN) is about translating climate policy into action ‘on the ground’ to bring about transformative change.
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is renowned for its research, postgraduate studies and continuing education in public and global health.
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
Integrating Climate Adaptation: A Toolkit for Urban Planners and Adaptation Practitioners
Explore a toolkit for urban planners and adaptation specialists, providing guidance on integrating climate adaptation into urban planning.
Framing Community Disaster Resilience: Resources, Capacities, Learning, and Action
Framing Community Disaster Resilience (textbook) offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters.
Nature-based Solutions Initiative, University of Oxford
This is a new Initiative based out of the University of Oxford involving research, policy advice and education aimed at increasing the implementation of Nature-based Solutions through the applicati
COBAM Cameroon- Baseline Vulnerability Report: References
References for the COBAM Cameroon- Baseline Vulnerability Report.
The Economics of Climate Resilience
The Economics of Climate Resilience (ECR) has been commissioned by Defra and the Devolved Administrations (DAs) to inform the UK’s first National Adaptation Programme and the adaptation plans of...
Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change
Summary
Several recent studies have reported adaptation costs for climate change, including for developing countries. They have similar-sized estimates and have been influential in...
Climate Data Management in the Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi
This study analysed the capacity of 20 weather observation stations in providing reliable and adequate climate data for effective climate change adaptation in the Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi.
Climate Change at the City Scale
by Anton Cartwright, Susan Parnell, Gregg Oelofse and Sarah Ward
Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and...
Content of the communication: risk
We now need to give some thought to the content of the messages about climate risks that we wish to communicate. This is where we face the challenge of conveying meaning between people with...
China
Note: This report was produced in Sep 2008 as part of a project to provide background information for Sida country assistance strategies, with the University of Gothenburg. Given the pace of...
Sub-Module 1.3 - Stakeholder analysis and engagement
Identification of stakeholders, and developing a plan for their participation throughout the screening process will be based on sound stakeholder analysis.
Social learning
Social learning develops the actors' ability to improvise; it requires investment in relationships and trust building, respect for difference and appreciation of other ways of seeing the world.
Maize-based Integrated Farming System
Farmers in the mid-hills of Nepal rely on a mixture of crops, animals and forest products for their livelihoods for their subsistence. Climate change threatens the system in a number of...
Small-holder Coffee Cash Cropping System
The ability of the Rwandan coffee sector to compete in the global market by producing the highest quality of coffee is threatened by climate change at a number of stages along the supply...
Pastoral System
The dryland areas of Tanzania are characterised by an extensive livestock system, where pastoral communities use cattle to meet many of their needs and as a store of wealth. Their...
Maize-based Subsistence Farming System
Farmers in Chikwawa grow a number of crops, alongside maize, to meet their subsistence needs, which are affected by flooding and droughts, expected to increase in magnitude and frequency...
Rice-based Salinity-prone Production System
As global sea levels rise, salt water intrusion leads to rising salinity levels, threatening agricultural production. It is a race to develop and employ increasingly salt tolerant...
Assessment
TE2100 Flood Risk Management Plan
Led by the Environment Agency, the Thames Estuary 2100 project (TE2100) was established in 2002 with the aim of developing a long-term tidal flood risk...
