This synthesis report covers the key findings from the ACCCRN project work in India from 2008 through 2013. This report summarizes research done as a part of ACCCRN in the areas of urbanisation and risk, future scenarios for urban areas in India, and climate change challenges.

This paper considers how resilience thinking and, in particular, its emphasis on learning has been applied in 10 cities in Vietnam, India, Thailand and Indonesia. Applying a “shared learning” approach in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) has helped to create or strengthen networks, build appreciation for complexity and uncertainty among stakeholders, provide a space for deliberating concepts such as vulnerability and resilience, and build knowledge and capacities for stakeholders to engage and represent their own interests.

Owing to stiff opposition from farmers whose land has been acquired, officials of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) could not start pre-construction work for the proposed nuclear p

This study, which uses a resilience strategy document developed for Gorakhpur as a baseline, suggests potential entry points for climate adaptation in the existing policy and regulatory framework. It also identifies specific action points that may be taken up at the city and state level to mainstream climate resilience.

Fatehabad, March 30: Voices against the proposed nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad grew louder today as farmers from 29 villages held a demonstration and demanded shifting of the projec

Asian cities are especially susceptible to unpredictable environmental change, as these cities are expected to account for more than 60 percent of global population growth in the next 30 years.

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