Screen LibraryClimate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction：issues and challenges
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Emerald,
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| Publisher Address: | Bingley, UK |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Community, environment and disaster risk management ; v. 4 |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 391 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780857244871 0857244876 |
| Index Number: | P467 |
| CLC: | P467-05 |
| Call Number: | P467-05/C639-4 |
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Includes bibliographical references. Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction : overview of issues and challenges / Rajib Shaw, Juan M. Pulhin and Joy Jacqueline Pereira -- Embedding climate change adaptation within disaster risk reduction / Ilan Kelman and JC Gaillard -- Disaster risk reduction under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change / Miwa Kato -- Promoting adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the post-Kyoto climate regime -- S. V. R. K. Prabhakar -- Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation : enabling environment for integration / Tran Phong and Bui Duc Tinh -- Adaptive g "Climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are closely associated. After the Bali Conference of Parties (COP) 2007, there has been significant awareness in global and national level to make collective focus on CCA and DRR. There exists some literature on CCA; however, the linkages with the DRR is not clear. The Nairobi Work Program (NWP), facilitated by the UN Framework of Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Parties have found specific scope of actions to enhance the CCA and DRR agenda in developing countries. Different national and international agencies ha |