Publications | Asia Pacific Adaptation Network

30 January 2015

Silver lining: A docu-drama on climate change

This 12-minute docu-drama is produced by Plan Bangladesh under the “Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation: Build Safe and Resilient Communities” project. The film aims at raising awareness amongst youths to the impacts of cutting d...

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Video

Bangladesh

02 May 2014

Adaptation in Retrospect: Perspectives from Successful Community-Based Adaptation Interventions

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 110, April 2014: So what do community based adaptation look like? And how do we think about them? This issue offers exactly this from global to local and East to West directions. The 110th issue...

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation / Disaster Risk Reduction / Ecosystems Based Adaptation / Gender and Social Impacts

PUBLICATION TYPE : Journal / Periodical

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, South Asia

14 January 2013

Human Vulnerability, Dislocation and Resettlement: Adaptation by River Bank Erosion-induced Displacees in Bangladesh

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation / Gender and Social Impacts

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Bangladesh, Southeast Asia

14 June 2012

Adaptation laboratory

Efforts to help the world's poor will face crises in coming decades as climate change radically alters conditions. This paper looks at how Action Research for Community Adapation in Bangladesh (ARCAB),a global consortium organised...

THEMES : Natural Resources and Agriculture / Private Sector / Coastal Zone Management / Communication and Awareness / Community Based Adaptation / Disaster Risk Reduction / Ecosystems Based Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Bangladesh, South Asia

05 June 2012

Tidal River Management (TRM): Climate Change Adaptation and Community Based River Basin Management in Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh

This publication of “Tidal River Management“ provides an interesting, scientifically well-founded and successful example of a local initiative on participatory water management and adaptation. People in Bangladesh are amongst the...

THEMES : Communication and Awareness / Community Based Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Bangladesh, South Asia

21 May 2012

A Strategy to Engage the Private Sector in Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

As noted in the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, the combination of frequent natural disasters, high population density, poor infrastructure and low resilience to economic shocks, makes Bangladesh especially v...

THEMES : Communication and Awareness / Community Based Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Policy Brief / Strategy Brief

Bangladesh, South Asia

21 October 2011

Report from Bangladesh: Turning Local Adaptation Lessons into National Policy

Recently in Dhaka, Bangladesh, WRI – together with over thirty other organizations – co-sponsored the Fifth International Conference on Community-based Adaptation. Nearly three hundred people attended from around the world, bringi...

THEMES : Private Sector / Community Based Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Bangladesh, South Asia

07 June 2011

Advancing Adaptation through Communication for Development

Documented experiences and lessons in the field indicate that community-based adaptation (CBA) yields far more encouraging results than any other approaches. CBA to climate change involves multi-stakeholder action, innovation and...

THEMES : Private Sector / Community Based Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Bangladesh, Bolivia, Congo, Jamaica, South Asia, Rest of the World

07 June 2011

Bangladesh Communities Show how they Adapt to Climate Change

Climate change experts travelled across Bangladesh to learn how vulnerable communities - flood plains, coastal locations and drought-prone sites - are rising to the challenge of coping with drought and floods. The experts were spl...

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

Bangladesh, South Asia

07 June 2011

The Importance of Adaptation

The extreme weather patterns caused by climate change have the most severe effect on people living in poor, developing countries such as Bangladesh, Myanmar and many places in Africa and Asia, which have little resources and finan...

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

All Countries, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia, Rest of the World