Adaptation to Climate Change documents
Best practices & case studies
| Publisher | Title | Scope | Subject | Year | |||
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| UNDP | Commonwealth of the Bahamas - National hurricane response 2004 - report on findings View Online | Download |
Bahamas | Assessment, Response, CDM, Recovery | 2004 | 100K | ENG | |
| CRMI | BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS - Integration of Disaster Risk Management into the Development Agenda View Online | Download |
British Virgin Islands | CDM, Development, SIDS | 2005 | 712K | ENG | |
| CRMI | ISLAS VÍRGENES BRITÁNICAS Integración de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres en la Agenda de Desarrollo View Online | Download |
British Virgin Islands | CDM, Development, SIDS | 2005 | 2.2M | ESP | |
| ODPEM | HURRICANE IVAN - JAMAICA An Assessment of The National Response September 3-10, 2004 View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Recovery, CDM, Economics | 2005 | 307K | ENG | |
| CaPRI | Resilience Potential: Assessing Jamaica's "Bounce-Back" from Hurricane Dean View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Recovery, CDM, Economics | 2008 | 933K | ENG | |
| ISDR | Gender Perspectives: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into Climate Change Adaptation View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change, Risk Reduction, Gender, Development | 2008 | 3.3M | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. CASE STUDY: Agriculture in indigenous communities in Guyana View Online | Download |
Guyana | Gender, Adaptation, Agriculture | 2009 | 1.8M | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. CASE STUDY: Water and sanitation in rural communities in Jamaica View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Gender, Adaptation, Sanitation | 2009 | 1M | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. CASE STUDY: Agriculture and housing in Suriname View Online | Download |
Suriname | Gender, Adaptation, Agriculture, Housing | 2009 | 805K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. Executive Summary View Online | Download |
Regional | Gender, CDM, Adaptation, Agriculture, Housing, Sanitation | 2009 | 940K | ENG |
Frameworks and policies
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| UN | Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations framework convention on climate change View Online | Download |
Global | Policy, Climate Change | 1998 | 76K | ENG | |
| IUCN | Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change, Gender, Strategy | 2009 | 4.4M | ENG |
Technical documents and guidebooks
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| UNDP | A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change View Online | Download |
Regional | CDM, Mitigation, Climate Change | 2002 | 4.1M | ENG | |
| UNDP | Un Enfoque de Manejo del Riesgo Climático para la Reducción de Desastres y Adaptación al Cambio Climático View Online | Download |
Regional | CDM, Mitigation, Climate Change | 2002 | 1.5M | ESP | |
| UNDP | Needs Assessment for Capacity Building in Risk Management and Vulnerability Reduction in the Caribbean Islands of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, and Grenada View Online | Download |
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada | CDM, Vulnerability assessment, SIDS | 2004 | 1.4M | ENG | |
| Tyndall Centre | Floods, health and climate change: A strategic review (working paper) View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Health, Sanitation, Vulnerability | 2004 | 1.1M | ENG | |
| Castellanos Abella / Van Westen | Generation of a landslide risk index map for Cuba using spatial multi-criteria evaluation View Online | Download |
Cuba | Vulnerability, Hazard, Landslides | 2007 | 757K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Climate Change-Induced Drought Adaptation Strategy for the Caribbean Region and Beyond View Online | Download |
Regional | Drought, Agriculture, Policy | 2007 | 1.1M | ENG | |
| UNDP | Resource guide on gender and climate change View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change, Gender equality, MDGs, Mitigation | 2008 | 2.2M | ENG | |
| UNEP | Disaster risk management for coastal tourism destinations responding to climate change - A practical guide for decision makers View Online | Download |
Regional | Risk Reduction, Tourism, Climate Change, Preparedness | 2008 | 3.1M | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Belize View Online | Download |
Belize | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 960K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Commonwealth of Dominica View Online | Download |
Dominica | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 720K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Dominican Republic View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 980K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Guyana View Online | Download |
Guyana | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 890K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean. COUNTRY ASSESSMENT: Jamaica View Online | Download |
Jamaica | Gender, CDM, Adaptation | 2009 | 840K | ENG | |
| SOPAC | Adapting to climate change in water resources and water services in Caribbean and Pacific small island countries View Online | Download |
Regional | Climate Change, Water, SIDS | 2009 | 2.7M | ENG | |
| World Bank | Assessing the Financial Vulnerability to Climate-Related Natural Hazards View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change, Economics, SIDS | 2010 | 604K | ENG | |
| UNDP | Gender, climate change and community-based adaptation guidebook View Online | Download |
Global | Gender, Climate change | 2010 | 4.4M | ENG | |
| World Bank | Adaptation to Climate Extremes in Developing Countries - The Role of Education (Working paper) View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Economics, Education, Policy | 2010 | 750K | ENG | |
| ODI | Responding to a changing climate - Exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity (Working paper) View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Development, Adaptive capacity | 2010 | 870K | ENG | |
| IUCN | Integrating environmental safeguards into flood relief, response and recovery View Online | Download |
Global | Relief, Recovery, Environment | 2010 | 740K | ENG | |
| CARE - IISD | Toolkit for Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Projects View Online | Download |
Global | Adaptation, Capacity development, Project management, Climate change | 2010 | 1.6M | ENG | |
| World Bank | Climate Governance and Development View Online | Download |
Global | Governance, Economics, Development, Climate change | 2010 | 2.8M | ENG | |
| OAS | Community-Centered Flood Early Warning Systems in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic View Online | Download |
Dominican Republic, Central America | EWS, Economics, Risk management | 2010 | 1.6M | ENG | |
| UNDP | Quantification and Magnitude of Losses and Damages Resulting from the Impacts of Climate Change: Modelling the Transformational Impacts and Costs of Sea Level Rise in the Caribbean (Summary Document) View Online | Download |
Regional | Climate change, Economics | 2010 | 3.9M | ENG | |
| GTZ | Climate Proofing for Development - Adapting to Climate Change, Reducing Risk View Online | Download |
Global | 2010 | 1.8M | ENG | ||
| World Bank | Mapping Vulnerability to Climate Change (Working paper) View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Vulnerability assessment, Adaptation | 2010 | 1.3M | ENG | |
| World Bank | Designing Climate Change Adaptation Policies - An Economic Framework (Working paper) View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Policy, Economics | 2011 | 940K | ENG | |
| Inter-Research Science Center | Climate information requirements for community-level risk management and adaptation View Online | Download |
Global | CRM, Risk assessment | 2011 | 130K | ENG |
Reports and statements
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| UNISDR | Beijing Declaration for Action View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change, Risk Reduction, Gender | 2009 | 28K | ENG | |
| SPREP | Pacific Regional Environment Programme briefing - Climate Change Conference: Outcomes and next steps View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change | 2010 | 76K | ENG | |
| SPREP | Note d'information du Programme Régional Océanien de L'environnement - Conférence sur le changement climatique : Résultats et prochaines étapes View Online | Download |
Global | Climate Change | 2010 | 84K | FRA | |
| CEPAL | Report of the roundtable: towards development of a climate change policy for the Caribbean - Understanding the Potential Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean View Online | Download |
Regional | Development, Economics, Climate change | 2010 | 196K | ENG | |
| ECLAC | Climate change: a regional perspective - Unity Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean View Online | Download |
Regional | Climate change adaptation and mitigation, Economics | 2010 | 2.7M | ENG | |
| UNISDR | Aligning Regional and Global Disaster Risk Reduction Agendas View Online | Download |
Global | Capacity development, Climate change, Governance, Economics, Health, Education | 2011 | 3.5M | ENG |
Additional information
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| IUCN | Sobre marinos, marinas, mares y mareas: perspectiva de género en zonas marino-costeras View Online | Download |
Gender, Development | 2000 | 1M | ESP | ||
| IUCN | About fishermen, fisherwomen, oceans and tides : a gender perspective in marine-coastal zones View Online | Download |
Gender, Development | 2001 | 1.6M | ENG | ||
| WEDO | Changing the Climate: Why Women's Perspectives Matter View Online | Download |
Global | Gender, Climate change, Development | 2007 | 734K | ENG | |
| GDN | 2008 A Year of Disasters A Network for Change View Online | Download |
Gender | 2008 | 265K | ENG | ||
| Fariñas Rodriguez, Gilda | Women, poverty and climate change View Online | Download |
Haiti | Gender, Development | 2008 | 27K | ENG | |
| Lewis, James | The creation of cultures of risk - Political and commercial decisions as causes of vulnerability for others View Online | Download |
Global | Vulnerability, Risk Reducion, Recovery | 2008 | 80K | ENG | |
| CRMI | Mainstreaming Gender in Disaster Risk Management View Online | Download |
Regional | Gender, CDM | 2009 | 90K | ENG | |
| UNEP | Green economy: A Brief For Policymakers on the Green Economy and Millennium Development Goals View Online | Download |
Global | MDGs, Policy, Economics | 2010 | 2.2M | ENG | |
| SCR | Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management in brief View Online | Download |
Adaptation, Vulnerability, Development, CDM | 2010 | 416K | ENG | ||
| IOM | Disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and environmental migration View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Disaster reduction, Migration | 2010 | 3.9M | ENG | |
| ISDR | Strengthening climate change adaptation through effective disaster risk reduction - Briefing note 03 View Online | Download |
Global | Risk reduction, Climate change, Adaptation, Development | 2010 | 1.3M | ENG | |
| UNDP, GEF | Adapting To Climate Change: UNDP-GEF Initiatives Financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund, Special Climate Change Fund and Strategic Priority On Adaptation View Online | Download |
Global | Climate change, Capacity development, Agriculture, Food security | 2011 | 3.3M | ENG |
Enhancing Gender Visibility in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change in the Caribbean
