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Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian super cyclone (Saudamini Das and Jeffrey R. Vincent, 2009)
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Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis (Giles Atkinson and Susana Mourato, 2008)
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Efficient Adaptation to Climate Change (Robert Mendelsohn, 2000)
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Firms and individuals will likely engage in substantial private adaptation with respect to climate change in such sectors as farming, energy, timber, and recreation because it is in their interest to do so. The shared benefit nature of joint adaptation, however, will cause individuals to underprovide joint adaptation in such areas as water control, sea walls, and ecological management. Governments need to start thinking about joint adaptation, being careful to design efficient responses which treat climate change problems as they arise.
Adaptation to climate change among agropastoral systems: case for Zimbabwe - Ungani, 2009
Climate change is an additional constraint to sustainable socio-economic development in Zimbabwe. The increasing frequency and severity of droughts and floods, the periodic shift in onset of the rains, and increasing intensity of mid-season dry spells in the last 50 years have been identified in the Initial National Communications (1996) and other recent studies (for example Tadross et al, 2008) as a major consequence of climate change.
Improving Adaptive Capacity and Resilience in Bhutan
Abstract: Bhutan, a small least developed country in the Himalayan Mountains, faces five current climate change related vulnerabilities: landslides and flooding, deteriorating agricultural production, impoverished forests, worsening health security, and impaired hydroelectricity generation. The country is attempting to adapt to these challenges through two globally sponsored adaptation efforts.
Building Responsiveness to Climate Change through Community Based Adaption in Bangladesh
Abstract: This article explores the drivers, benefits, and challenges to climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. It specifically investigates the “Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation Program,” a 5-year $5 million adaptation scheme being funded and implemented in part by the Government of Bangladesh, United Nations Development Program, and Global Environment Facility.