Publications

31 July 2016

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Report: Developing a Demonstration Site in Nepal on Community Forestry, Gender and Climate Change Adaptation

The Asia-Pacific region has some of the highest absolute numbers of people dependent on forests for significant portions of their livelihoods, and also stands to suffer some of the greatest expected economic and loss of human life...

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation / Forecast and Assessment / Gender and Social Impacts / Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal

30 June 2016

Community forestry-based climate change adaptation: a practitioner’s brief

In 2014, the USAID Climate Change Adaptation Project Preparation Facility for Asia and the Pacific (USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific) teamed up with RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests to establish a demonstration site in the Bish...

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation / Gender and Social Impacts / Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Policy Brief / Strategy Brief

Nepal

31 March 2015

IGES Research Report: Climate change, changing rainfall and increasing water scarcity: An integrated approach for planning adaptation and building resilience of smallholder subsistence livelihoods in Nepal

This research report assesses water scarcity and its impacts on smallholder subsistence livelihoods in the context of climate change in Nepal, a mountainous country located entirely within the Ganges River Basin. It identifies and...

THEMES : Mountainous Regions / Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal

19 December 2014

Adapting to Climate Change for Sustainable Agribusiness in High Mountain Watersheds

This publication includes the findings of a participatory action research (PAR) carried out between 2010 and 2012 in two geographically and climatically different mountain watersheds in Mustang and Jumla districts in Nepal. The st...

THEMES : Mountainous Regions / Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal

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10 June 2014

Climate and Development Outlook – Nepal Special Edition

The special edition provide an overview of CDKN’s training programme to increase the capacity of Nepali climate negotiators; a study to assess the economic impacts of climate change on Nepal’s key sectors such as agriculture and w...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal

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10 June 2014

Economic impact assessment of climate change for key sectors in Nepal

This report assesses how climate change will affect key economic sectors in Nepal such as agriculture, water and energy. This study estimates the potential impacts and economic costs of climate change for three major risk areas, i...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal

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17 December 2013

San Giorgio Group Case Study: Insights from Nepal’s Pilot Program for Climate Resilience

Understanding the possible role of private actors in contributing to countries’ adaptation efforts and how to involve them in tackling countries’ adaptation priorities, can help nations achieve climate-resilient development goals...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Natural Resources and Agriculture / Private Sector

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal, South Asia

03 December 2013

The story behind Nepal’s knowledge management centre

This article looks back at how a CDKN project strengthened the core functions of the Nepal Climate Change Knowledge Management Centre. The article discusses what were learnt and achieved and what more needs to be done. For more i...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Journal / Periodical

Nepal

27 November 2013

Nepal: How the people of Nepal live with climate change and what communication can do

How do people in Nepal live with climate change now? How will its impacts shape their future and how will they, in turn, shape their environment? What are the most effective ways to support people to adapt to climate change and...

THEMES : Communication and Awareness

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal, South Asia

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03 September 2013

Policy Provisions and Local Response on Climate Change Adaptation in Nepal

Nepal is widely viewed as highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, both because of its geography – landlocked and mountainous, with rivers fed by the Himalayan glaciers – and because of its socio-economic makeup, with w...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal, Southeast Asia

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