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  • Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials

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    Objective
    Adaptation

    The Climate Resilience Framework is a conceptual framework for simplifying and analyzing complex relationships between people, systems, institutions and climate change. The framework helps clarify factors that need to be included in the diagnosis of climate vulnerability, structures the systematic analysis of vulnerability in ways that clearly identify the entry points for responding, and supports strategic planning to build resilience to climate change.

  • APHRODITE's Water Resources

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    Objective
    Mitigation

    This project develops state-of-the-art daily precipitation data sets with high-resolution grids for Asia, including the Himalayas, South and South-East Asia and mountainous areas in the Middle East. The data sets are created primarily with data obtained from a rain-gauge-observation network. The data contribute to studies such as the diagnosis of climate changes, evaluation of Asian water resources, statistical downscaling, forecast improvements and verification of numerical model simulation and satellite precipitation estimates.

  • Climate Resilience Framework: Training Material

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    Objective
    Adaptation
    Sectors
    Coastal zones
    Water
    Agriculture and forestry

    These training materials include a conceptual framework for simplifying and analysing complex relationships between people, systems, institutions and climate change. The framework helps clarify factors that need to be included in the diagnosis of climate vulnerability, structures the systematic analysis of vulnerability in ways that clearly identify the entry points for responding and supports strategic planning to build resilience to climate change.

  • Water and Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin: Diagnosis and Recommendations for Adaptation

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    Objective
    Adaptation
    Sectors
    Water

    This report presents the findings from a research project that looked at the interconnections between water and climate change in the lower basin of the Mekong River in South-East Asia. The analysis indicates that climate change is likely to bring remarkable changes to the Mekong River Basin, with most remarkable impacts being felt in the longer term. Because a long-term perspective is required for climate change adaptation, broader socio-political and economic contexts and their future evolution need to be considered.

  • Diagnosis of farming systems in the agroforestry for livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Northwestern Viet Nam project

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    Objective
    Adaptation
    Sectors
    Agriculture and forestry

    The Agroforestry for Livelihoods of Smallholder farmers in Northwestern Viet Nam project (2011-2016) focuses on agroforestry trials on farms in the northwestern mountainous region of the country. The objective of the study was to make an inventory of the current upland farming systems and identify key strengths and weaknesses of each system, including economic efficiency. The farming system diagnosis was based on participatory assessments and focus group discussions and in- depth interviews with 45 project ‘farmer co-operators’ in 17 villages in Yen Bai, Son La and Dien Bien provinces.

  • id21 viewpoint - Questioning climate change: is it really dangerous and fossil fuel induced?

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    Objective
    Adaptation
    Approach
    Community based

    Who benefits from disasters and the claims of dangerous, man-made (but still avoidable) global warming? Not that disasters never happen, but do we have the right diagnosis in this case?I
    would like to add a note of optimism to the report by the New Economics
    Foundation (NEF) and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) called
    'The end of development'. Both warn of the reversal of human progress, unless of
    course humanity responds as these 'experts' advise.
    Such claims call for political analysis.
    There

  • A Photoluminescent Sensor for Rapid Detection and Identification of Solvent Vapors

    Rapid detection and identification of gases and other volatile compounds is needed in diverse areas that include environmental monitoring medical diagnosis quality control and defense applications. Current methods that rely on chromatographic analyses are expensive time consuming and require skilled operators. As a result new methods that enable the simple direct identification of these volatile species are needed. Researchers at Rice University have developed a new material that can be used in the identification of unknown solvent vapors.