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Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment … in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in … disaster risk is properly assessed, disaster risk is reduced, and residual risk is well managed. Yet, real progress in …

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Managing Regional Public Goods for Health: Community-Based Dengue Vector Control

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The threat from dengue has grown dramatically. The World Health Organization estimates that there may be up to 100 million infections each year worldwide. Approximately 500,000 people are hospitalized, and many thousands die because of dengue each year. Controlling mosquitoes is the only...

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Climate Change, Hydro-dependency and the African Dam Boom

Cole, Matthew A.; Elliott, Robert J.R.; Strobl, Eric - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

We examine Africa’s increasing reliance on hydropower in light of climate change induced variations in rainfall and the potential power outages that may result. We use a continent wide riverflow model and IPPC climate change scenarios and show that current plans for African dam building are...

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Tropical Forests and Climate Change Mitigation: The Global Potential and Cases from the Philippines

Lasco, Rodel D - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 5 (2008) 1, pp. 81-98

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC Fourth Assessment report has highlighted the role of tropical forests in mitigating climate change. Deforestation, especially in tropical countries, contributes about 20 percent to total global greenhouse gas emissions. Development projects...

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The International Law and Politics of Climate Change

Stein, Jana von - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 (2008) 2, pp. 243-268

A considerable challenge for the creators of international environmental agreements is how to design mechanisms that deter defection without deterring participation. Relatively ``soft'' law often garners widespread participation, but it creates few concrete incentives for states to improve...

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Vulnerability of wind power resources to climate change in the continental United States

Breslow, Paul B.; Sailor, David J. - In: Renewable Energy 27 (2002) 4, pp. 585-598

Renewable energy resources will play a key role in meeting the world's energy demand over the coming decades. Unfortunately, these resources are all susceptible to variations in climate, and hence vulnerable to climate change. Recent findings in the atmospheric science literature suggest that...

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Uncertainty in wave energy resource assessment. Part 2: Variability and predictability

Mackay, Edward B.L.; Bahaj, AbuBakr S.; Challenor, Peter G. - In: Renewable Energy 35 (2010) 8, pp. 1809-1819

The uncertainty in estimates of the energy yield from a wave energy converter (WEC) is considered. The study is presented in two articles. The first article considered the accuracy of the historic data and the second article, presented here, considers the uncertainty which arises from...

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Biogas as a potential renewable energy source: A Ghanaian case study

Arthur, Richard; Baidoo, Martina Francisca; Antwi, Edward - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 5, pp. 1510-1516

The associated harmful environmental, health and social effects with the use of traditional biomass and fossil fuel has enhanced the growing interest in the search for alternate cleaner source of energy globally. Ghana, a developing country depends heavy on woodfuel as a source of fuel...

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Energy performance and thermal comfort of courtyard/atrium dwellings in the Netherlands in the light of climate change

Taleghani, Mohammad; Tenpierik, Martin; van den … - In: Renewable Energy 63 (2014) C, pp. 486-497

With increased global concerns on climate change, the need for innovative spaces which can provide thermal comfort and energy efficiency is also increasing. This paper analyses the effects of transitional spaces on energy performance and indoor thermal comfort of low-rise dwellings in the...

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Sustainability and energy policy

Ferguson, Eric T. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 5, pp. 1422-1435

Each of the following sections carries one central thought, often summarised in one (bold-face) sentence. Together, these statements give an overview of some major long term issues of sustainable use of energy which humanity must face. No effort is made to argue all points, to be exhaustive, or...

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