Livelihoods and Climate Change: Combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management & climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty

Abstract:

In 2001, IUCN – The World Conservation Union, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) joined forces to launch an international research and policy initiative on Climate Change, Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation. Guided by a multi-disciplinary Task Force, this initiative represents a confluence of four distinct, yet decidedly relevant, communities working on vulnerability reduction in the face of climate change. This paper is useful in providing a framework for those researchers, policymakers and community groups seeking to take action on adaptation.