Programme Publications

Working with the Winds of Change: Toward Strategies for Responding to the Risks Associated with Climate Change and Other Hazards. Each chapter is available here for downloading in a LOW resolution format. You will need Adobe Acrobat 8.0 to view these chapters.  This book provides initial insights from an ongoing programme on disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in South Asia. The study is being undertaken in the Nepal Tarai, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, coastal Tamilnadu and coastal Gujarat of India, and the Lai Basin and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan. The programme is financed by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) and the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). IDRC provided support for the field studies in Nepal and India. The support from the ProVention Consortium has helped in furthering the analysis and the development of this publication. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.

Working with the Winds of Change: Toward Strategies for Responding to the Risks Associated with Climate Change and Other Hazards. Each chapter is available here for downloading in a HIGH resolution format. You will need Adobe Acrobat 8.0 to view these chapters. This book provides initial insights from an ongoing programme on disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in South Asia. The study is being undertaken in the Nepal Tarai, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, coastal Tamilnadu and coastal Gujarat of India, and the Lai Basin and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan. The programme is financed by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) and the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). IDRC provided support for the field studies in Nepal and India. The support from the ProVention Consortium has helped in furthering the analysis and the development of this publication. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.

Catalyzing Climate and Disaster Resilience: Processes for Identifying Tangible and Economically Robust Strategies (currently only available in low resolution. High resolution version will be uploaded soon). This publication is the result of attempts to determine the cost-effectiveness and efficacy of various flood and drought risk reduction strategies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The cost-benefit analysis involved quantitative and qualitative methodologies for examining adaptation focused disaster risk reduction strategies. Produced by ISET and the Risk to Resilience Study Team. Edited by M. Moench, E. Fajber, A. Dixit, E. Caspari and A. Pokhrel.

Paper published in the March 2009 edition of the journal Gender & Development. Authors: Sara Ahmed and Liz Fajber, ISET Associates