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Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels [1]

Effective planning for climate change adaptation programming in developing countries requires a finegrained assessment of local vulnerabilities, practices and adaptation options and preferences. While global models can project climate impacts and estimate costs of expected investments, developing country decision-makers also require national assessments that take a bottom-up, pro-poor perspective, integrate across sectors, and reflect local stakeholders

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
Anne T. Kuriakose [2], Livia Bizikova [3], Carina A. Bachofen [4]
The World Bank [5]
Tags:
Climate Change [6], Climate Economics [7], Climate Impacts [8], Climate Adaptation [9], Ethiopia [10], Ghana [11], Mozambique [12], Bangladesh [13], Bolivia [14]

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