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What makes web users 'tick'?

Tuesday, May 22 2012 / Mairi Dupar

Climate knowledge brokers convened by CDKN and GIZ in Bonn this weekend were interested in ‘what makes web users tick’.  Mairi Dupar of CDKN took part in some revealing discussions. Online

Managing the regional risks of climate extremes and disasters: learning from the IPCC Special Report

Tuesday, May 22 2012 / CDKN Global

Climate change is a complex phenomenon that is changing economies, health and communities in diverse, and severe ways. It is predicted that billions of people face shortages of water and

Rio+20: Seven out of ten CEOs would take action on global sustainability challenges

Tuesday, May 22 2012 / PwC

Malcolm Preston, PwC’s global sustainability and climate change leader, reflects on the results of a PwC poll which asked CEOs how important sustainable development is now and in the future,

Latest from the SREX regional events

Tuesday, May 22 2012 / CDKN Global

CDKN is helping to bring the results of the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) to audiences in

Community radio cutting disaster risk in coastal Bangladesh

Tuesday, May 22 2012 / Reuters AlertNet Climate

Local language broadcasts are also helping communities adapt effectively to climate change impacts

Moving REDD+ forward: more structured discussion on the drivers of deforestation is needed (ODI Blog Posts, 22 May 2012)

Tuesday, May 22 2012 / Overseas Development Institute - Theme: Climate Change

'The second REDD+ Partnership meeting of 2012 should be commended for its acknowledgment and frank discussion on these important issues. I left the meeting, however, without a clear sense of

ICT-Enabled Development of Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation

Monday, May 21 2012 / Eldis

Climate change and related stressors are posing an increasing challenge to livelihoods in low-income communities. Those communities need to develop the capacity to adapt to climate change: coping with short-term

Living Off Uncertainty: The Intelligent Animal Production of Dryland Pastoralists

Monday, May 21 2012 / Eldis

This article argues that despite important advances following the challenge to equilibrium-based models in range ecology, pastoralism is still largely seen as a coping strategy that allows herders to get

Mobile Pastoralists and Education: Strategic Options

Monday, May 21 2012 / Eldis

Educating nomadic peoples in the context of rapid global socio-economic change is a challenge of massive proportions. This paper sets out to address this challenge in two ways: firstly by

Changing context for climate knowledge brokers

Sunday, May 20 2012 / Mairi Dupar

If you run a climate and development website, what should you be thinking about in the next year? What do your users actually want? These are the hot questions under debate

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