Arctic Resilience Report 2016
This report is the culmination of a 5-year effort to better understand Arctic change, including critical tipping points, factors that support resilience and choices that strengthen adaptive capacity
Pastoralism and Adaptation
The purpose of this paper is to assess the potential for pastoral communities inhabiting Kenyan Masailand to adapt to climate change using conservancies and payments for ecosystem services.
Building Adaptive Capacity and Resilience To Climate Change in Afghanistan
"Building Adaptive Capacity and Resilience To Climate Change in Afghanistan (LDCF-1)" is the first Full-size GEF project in Afghanistan for Climate Change Adaptation.
MOUNTAIN EVO - Nepal Case Study
Mustang district (Photo by Dr Bhopal Pandey, Imperial College London)
The Upper Kaligandaki basin is located in the Mustang district of the Trans-Himalayan region of Nepal,...
Spekboom Carbon Sequestration and Rehabilitation Project
In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, Subtropical Thicket has faced severe pressure from agriculture. Originally spekboom-dominated thicket covered approximately 1 200 000 ha of which 550 000 ha (46%) is heavily degraded, 450 000 ha (37%) is moderately degraded, and only about 200 000 ha (17%) is intact.
Coigach-Assynt Living Landscape
Photograph by Viv Halcrow
The Coigach-Assynt Living Landscape (CALL) is one of the largest landscape restoration projects in Europe, aiming to benefit the land, the...
Designing Effective Locally Managed Areas in Tropical Marine Environments
All communities want to live among healthy and abundant natural resources that provide many benefits, including food, income, medicine, and cultural value. However, coastal...
Working with nature towards integrated approaches to disaster risk reduction
All around the world, people are increasingly exposed to disaster risk from natural hazards such as droughts, storms and floods. As disasters increase in frequency and...
Criteria for Ecosystem-Smart Disaster Risk Reduction
The integration of ecosystems and natural resource management in disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been largely overlooked to date. This document introduces a set of criteria...
ECR: Forestry
The Focus of the Analysis
This report addresses the question:
“What is the case for further action in relation to climate change adaptation for forest productivity...
WD-NACE Scenarios Kenya
The Whole Decision Network Analysis for Coastal Ecosystems (WD-NACE) project involved partners from the United Kingdom, Bangladesh and Kenya. It builds upon existing knowledge...
Ecosystem Marketplace
The Ecosystem Marketplace, a project of Forest Trends, is a leading source of news, data, and analytics on markets and payments for ecosystem services (such as w
Bangkok Climate Resilience
Bangkok hosted the 5th workshop of the Adaptation Partnership organized by ISET, July 31-Aug 2, 2012. The event focused on “A Community for Building Urban Climate Change Resilience in Asia”. Full...
WD-NACE EOP
On the 27th of September a global group of representatives of research and funding organisations alike gathered in London's Wellcome center to evaluate and debrief the Whole Decision...
Emergency Preparedness and Logistics Consulting Ltd.
Assist all organizations and individuals in developing resiliency and sustainable development practices to maintain and rebuild vital ecosystems and lifesupport systems.
Future impacts of climate change on forests
Even though the extent of future climate change remains largely uncertain, forests will be impacted to a certain degree under all future emissions scenarios.
In the 'Future Environmental...
Vulnerability, forest-related sectors and climate change adaptation in Cameroon
Wildlife in the Cameroonian forests. Photo by Terry Sunderland/CIFOR.
In Cameroon and elsewhere in the Congo Basin, the majority of rural households and a large...
Cameroon TNS Baseline- System of Analysis
The system of analysis is located in the Tri-National de la Sangha (TNS) landscape, which consists of three national parks: Lobéké (Cameroon), Nouabalé-Ndoki (ROC) and...
Adaptation efforts in the tropical dry forest of Bolivia
The Chiquitano Model Forest is one of three case study model forests of the EcoAdapt project, which aims to develop and implement ecosystem-based adaptation strategies in Argentinian, Bolivian and...
EcoAdapt
The EcoAdapt project draws on outcomes from two rounds of regional consultation with Latin American civil society organizations (CSO) and scientists. The project centres on watershed...
Forest fires and climate change
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The projected decrease in summer precipitation in southern Europe and the increase in the frequency of summer droughts...
Ecosystem based adaptation: a multi-stakeholder affair
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) is defined as “the adaptation policies and measures that take into account the role of ecosystem services in reducing the vulnerability of society to climate...
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