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Ningbo serves as the Chinese pilot city for the World Bank Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) Program. The CRC program aims to, prepare local governments in the East Asia region to better understand the concepts and consequences of climate change; how climate change consequences contribute to urban...
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Climate change has been called the most important threat to human health in the 21st century. It is estimated that if thetemperature rises and its impact on the other climatic variablescontinues unchanged, it will kill more than 83 million people (1 percent of the world's population) in the next...
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This note summarizes lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES). It draws from application of the Resilience Booster Tool to specific projects, as...
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"The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro …
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"Ersado looks at the feasibility and potential of instituting small-scale irrigation dams to reduce Ethiopia … implications of irrigation development programs and provides empirical evidence from microdam construction and reforestation …-scale irrigation dams in areas prone to waterborne diseases. While the theoretical analyses imply that the net welfare impacts of …
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