Climate Risk in Africa: Adaptation and Resilience
This book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate risk, using insights from sub-Saharan Africa.
Climate Adaptation in Africa
This MOOC course, developed at UCT explores why climate change adaptation is important in the African context.
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region.
Key insights for bridging CCA and DRR in the European Green Deal
The PLACARD manifesto shares insights that bridge climate change adaptation & disaster risk reduction - 3 action areas to improve cooperation & recommendations for the European Green Deal.
Integrating gender and nutrition in Ugandan policy: An assessment
A recent study on Ugandan climate and food security policies assesses gender and nutrition mainstreaming in national policy.
CARE Climate and Resilience Academy
The CARE Climate and Resilience Academy is a website with free online training resources on climate and resilience drawing on CARE’s 17 years of experience.
Mauritania • Nouakchott
This case study provides a short insight of adpatation issues faced by the region of Nouakchott and the policies designed and implemented to tackle them through the AREDDUN project
Addressing the Land Degradation–Migration Nexus
A review of existing evidence, good practices, and policy recommendations on the complex interrelationships between migration and desertification, land degradation and drought.
City government-research partnerships
This briefing note provides reflections on city government-research partnerships, from Cape Town and Johannesburg.
2019 Asia-Pacific Disaster Report shows a region at risk and running out of time
The 2019 Asia-Pacific Disaster Report reveals an alarming new “riskscape” for the region. Members of the ICoE reflect on the findings of the report.
Tackling Soil Erosion and Improving Lives in South- Eastern Nigeria
The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project is aimed at addressing gully erosion in southeastern Nigeria, as well as land degradation in northern Nigeria.
University of the Philippines
The University of the Philippines (UP) is the country’s national university.
Towards a Safer World Network
The Towards a Safer World initiative (TASW) convenes a broad range of multi-sector, multi-regional stakeholders involved in whole-of-society preparedness including non-traditional partners from bus
Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards – the emBRACE framework
This paper describes the emBRACE framework of community resilience - a heuristic analytical tool for understanding, explaining and measuring community resilience to natural hazards.
Transforming Development and Disaster Risk
The article brings together learning on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk by a SEI Initiative funded by Sida.
Adaptive governance as a catalyst for transforming the relationship between development and disaster risk through the Sendai Framework
This paper investigates the importance of adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction and explores the transformations needed to achieve equitable, resilient, and sustainable development.
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.
Bringing rights into resilience: revealing complexities of climate risks and social conflict
This paper takes a rights-based approach to understand how cultural, political and social norms and practices influence resilience.
What is equitable resilience?
This paper reveals four themes essential in understanding equitable resilience in practice: subjectivities, inclusion, cross-scale interactions, and transformation.
From climate risk to climate resilience: How Zambian smallholders are using local knowledge and climate data to adapt their cropping strategies
This case study considers how climate farmer field schools were established in Northern Zambia to make climate resilience an on-the-ground reality for smallholder farmers.
Lessons and practice of co-developing climate services with users
This report shares experiences and summarises lessons learned from Climateurope project partners on how to foster co-development of climate services between providers and users.
How resilient is resilience?
This blog asks: how useful (or not) is the concept of resilience for people affected by development concerns such as disaster risk, including climate change challenges and opportunities?
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