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This book gives a comprehensive overview of the state of research on the complex issues surrounding ´climate change and drylands`. It reveals systematically the various interrelations and feedback mechanisms, with detailed information about the contribution of drylands to climate change, recent and projected climatic changes and their impacts on drylands. The authors also discuss how…

Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat and will hit the poorest hardest. In this accessible yet authoritative introduction to climate change in Africa Camilla Toulmin looks at a range of threats and opportunities, from natural disasters to biofuels, from conflicts to the oil industry, and asks what future there might be for…

This book seeks to demonstrate how disaster risk management and adaptation could be better integrated into urban development planning (i.e. social housing, slum upgrading and urban governance programmes). Based on the identification of the nexus between disasters and urban development and of the incomplete approaches to risk reduction and its mainstreaming, a comprehensive adaptation…

Ahead of the the UN Climate Change meeting on Dec 1st in Poznan, the "Little REDD Book" is a guide to aid understanding of the UN mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). The mechanism will be a major issue of discussion at Poznan and getting it right represents the single biggest opportunity to help halt deforestation in developing countries.

The manual brings us a valuable set of terms and concepts from the UNCCD and other international agreements in three different languages, covering a quite wide number of potential users of the available information. In this regard, this publication can be very useful not only for the Brazilian public and Latin Americans, but also for those African Portuguese and English speaking countries. …

This manual explicitly addresses non-climate science experts and is intended to be helpful for practical work on adaptation. It describes the concrete steps of (i) how to obtain climate change information, (ii) how to interpret it adequately, and (iii) how to communicate the resulting knowledge in a careful and responsible way. The main objective of this guide is to enhance the…