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Livelihoods and Climate Change: Combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management and climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty

» IISD, IUCN, SEI, IISD, 2003. Book, 24 pages, copyright: IISD, IUCN, SEI, Intercooperation, ISBN 1-895536-72-3

This report was produced by the Task Force on Climate Change, Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation. In 2001, IUCN – The World Conservation Union, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) joined forces to launch an international research and policy initiative on Climate Change, Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation. Guided by a multi-disciplinary Task Force, this initiative represents a confluence of four distinct, yet decidedly relevant, communities working on vulnerability reduction in the face of climate change. These experts—from the fields of disaster risk reduction, climate change, conservation and poverty reduction—first met following the release of the IPCC Working Group II’s latest assessment of climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability and the conclusion of the Marrakech Accords to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In view of the expanding body of knowledge on climate change impacts and new funding opportunities for climate change adaptation, the Task Force set in motion a collaborative effort to inform and influence how the world undertakes and invests in climate change adaptation.


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Acknowledgements
Preface
Executive Summary
What Can Adaptation Really Achieve?
The Keystone Concepts
The Current Regime
Vulnerability, Livelihoods and Climate
Adaptation as a Process: Issues and Challenges
A Strategic Framework for Adaptation
Seizing the Opportunity
References
Appendix – Members of the Task Force on Climate Change
Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation

Box 1 – Mangrove Rehabilitation in Vietnam
Box 2 – Community-based Rangeland Rehabilitation for Carbon Sequestration in Sudan
Box 3 – Agroecological Roots of Resilience in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala
Box 4 – Watershed Restoration and Development in Maharashtra State, India