This online book offers insight into development issues related to climate change and indigenous peoples that can be useful in policymaking. It provides an overview of more than 400 associated projects, case studies, and research...
We have attempted to look thirty years into the future. This study zeroes in on four major Philippine cities: Baguio, Cebu, Davao and Iloilo. In order to provide a more comprehensive grasp of likely future trends that (a) bui...
This paper identifies key development issues relating to land and water management in the less developed countries of the Himalayan and South East Asian (SEA) regions, and how these are likely to be affected by long-term climate c...
Tourism is a growing economic sector in the South Pacific providing the region with great potential for economic development. Vanuatu and its neighbouring Small Island Developing States and Territories experience a high vulnerabil...
Climate change will affect health in most countriesin Asia and the Pacific. It will challenge the publichealth community at the global, regional and nationallevels with emerging diseases and existing diseasesincreasing and spreadi...
Watersheds are critical to economic development and environmental protection in Southeast Asia, and are likely to be affected by future climate change. This project assessed the impacts of climate change and associated land use a...
The Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) organised a conference on climate change adaptation in Bali, Indonesia from 13 to 15 February, 2008. The event brought together key players in the subject-area by way...
The impacts of climate change on water resources will have wide-reaching implications for agricultural systems and food security around the globe. This is especially true for Nepal, a poorly developed country where a high percenta...
The paper tries to understand potential links among adaptation costs, socio-economic development, and climate change in developing countries, by observing the loss from floods and droughts from 1960-2003 using three determinants:...