Tag: Publications
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Climate Change, Making Poor People Poorer?
An assessment of climatic shocks on household income in Bangladesh.Master’s Thesis in Economics Climate Change, Making Poor People Poorer? An assessment of climatic shocks on household income in Bangladesh. [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Master_Thesis_Climate_Change_Making_Poor_People_Poorer_Daniel__Dariush.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#23840B” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Download[/btn] Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download PDF. [btn btnlink=”http://website.icccad.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Master_Thesis_Climate_Change_Making_Poor_People_Poorer_Daniel__Dariush.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#23840B” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Download[/btn]
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Introduction to The Circular Economy
There is today a wide scientific consensus on the existence of global warming, driven by the increased Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions (due to historic human activities) and concentration in the atmosphere. The latest IPCC 1.5°C Special report, released a couple of weeks ago in October 2018, made a clear statement that the world need to…
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Gibika Final Research Report
An overview of research findings from the 2013 to 2018 Gibika project. Understanding how environmental stress and climatic changes influence people’s livelihood resilience and lives in Bangladesh. By: Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson Contributing authors: Kees van der Geest and David Wrathall Introduction A climate-resilient and sustainable future for people in vulnerable countries starts with resilient livelihoods. There…
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Mobilizing Knowledge To Enhance Adaptive Capacity
For over a decade, researchers and policymakers have considered enhancing “adaptive capacity” to be a linchpin of successful adaptation to climate change. In 2015, at the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris, the international community formally asserted the importance of increasing the ability of individuals and groups to adapt to long-term changes in the climate,…
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Building Climate-Resilient, Migrant-Friendly Cities and Towns
Bangladesh has been experiencing a rapid growth in urban population during last four decades. However, this growth follows an imbalanced spatial distribution, mostly directed towards Dhaka city. As of 2011, almost 44% of the country’s urban population lived in Dhaka resulting in excessive pressure on its housing, transportation, infrastructure, and basic services (GED, 2015). This…
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The Role of Universities in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Education and research are explicitly recognized in a number of the SDGs and universities have a direct role in addressing these. However, the contribution of universities to the SDGs is much broader, as they can support the implementation of every one of the SDGs as well as the implementation of the SDG framework itself. Some…
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The role of universities in capacity building under the Paris agreement
Although the challenge of climate change is universal, the ability to effectively mitigate climate change and cope with its effects is not. Many of the world’s developing countries have seriously limited capacities to plan and implement adequate climate policies and actions, and these countries “cannot mitigate or adapt to climate change without first having the…