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Eric Chu on Translating Climate Adaptation Theory to Action on the Local Level
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“Adaptation is very theoretical. When you talk about ‘resilience,’ you draw these Venn diagrams and you draw these really complex issues, but at least at the IPCC level, we didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about what people were actually doing,” says Eric Chu in this week’s podcast.
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Are We Keeping up With Asia’s Urbanization?
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There is widespread agreement, and untold publications, that argue urbanization is the defining issue of our time. There are more cities, both large and small, and more people living in those cities than anytime in human history.
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Robin Bronen: To Help Alaskans Adapt, Make it Easier to Relocate
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“Human rights and climate change are completely interlinked,” says Robin Bronen in this week’s podcast, and “climate change is happening in Alaska faster than anywhere else on the planet.”
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David Lewis: To Avoid Reinforcing Status Quo, Focus on Understanding Livelihood Systems
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As the idea of resilience has received more attention from policymakers as a guiding principle for climate change response and development, so too has it garnered more criticism, says David Lewis in this week’s podcast. By implying a “natural” return to a previous condition, resilience thinking could inadvertently promote limited policies that don’t go as far as they could in aiding those most at-risk.
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Living Through Extremes: Livelihood Systems Key to Effective, Empowering Resilience Measures
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As climate change upends established patterns of life, resilience – the ability of social and ecological systems to mitigate, endure, and adapt to short-term shocks and long-term stressors – has become a buzzword in development and humanitarian circles. [Video Below]
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John Welch: Ebola Creating Slow-Burning Bomb for Maternal Health in Liberia
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“Our responsibility is to call attention to the fact that there’s an invisible crisis happening,” says John Welch of Partners in Health in this week’s podcast. “Ebola is a huge issue for women’s health.”
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‘Extreme Realities’ Sheds Light on Links Between Global Climate Dynamics and National Security
›“We cannot ignore the new reality that climate change has become a major foreign policy issue in the 21st century,” a new film by Hal and Marilyn Weiner concludes.
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William Butz: Investment in Human Capital, Not Engineering, Central to Climate Resilience
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“How does climate change affect people by age and sex, and where they live?” asks William Butz, director of coordination and outreach at the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital, in this week’s podcast. “And how to do they respond? How do they adapt or fail to adapt?”
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