This article explores how neoliberalism has limited governments’ ability to respond to climate change and increased climate-related risks to individuals and communities.

The article argues that adaptation is not so much about the kind of activities but rather about their purpose and effects under changing conditions.

While the bizarre downpour and resulting flash floods in Leh and parts of Pakistan in August 2010 still remains a possible warning of an imminent climate change, the tragedy of Leh was compounded due to its unpreparedness for such a natural calamity. But the story...

This article is based on a case study of the community of Kugluktuk in Nunavut, Canada. The assessment of current vulnerability is used as a basis to consider Kugluktuk’s possible vulnerability to climatic change in the future. This research argues that Northern communities are challenged...

The tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change. There is now a clear understanding that the industry can be part of the solution to climate change, by reducing its green house gas emissions as well as by...

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 of 65 participants comprising researchers, policy-makers, NGOs and donors. About 40 papers...

The Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corporation (QUEDANCOR) of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture is tasked to provide and distribute credit resources and initiate programs to help accelerate rural growth, generate employment and establish enterprises that provide more livelihood and income opportunities to small fishers....

This project aims to initiate actions for local community and stakeholders to enhance adaptive capacity, resilience and livelihoods due to impacts of climate change by involving directly 250 households focusing on key areas of environmental education, agriculture, fisheries, alternative livelihoods, water and disaster risk reduction...

The developing countries of the Asia-Pacific region are very diverse economically, politically, socially, and culturally. Yet, many of them face similar development and environmental challenges related to poverty alleviation, sustainable economic development, increased urbanization and greater rural-urban migration, environmental degradation, and the frequent incidence of...

The developing countries of the Asia-Pacific region are very diverse economically, politically, socially, and culturally. Yet, many of them face similar development and environmental challenges related to poverty alleviation, sustainable economic development, increased urbanization and greater rural-urban migration, environmental degradation, and the frequent incidence of...