Workshop on local coping strategies and technologies for adaptation

12-13 November 2003
New Delhi, India

Background

A workshop on local coping strategies and technologies for adaptation to climate change was held in New Delhi in November 2003 as part of the Climate Change Bazaar and Conferences organized by the Government of India. The objective was to exchange information on regional and local coping strategies and indigenours technologis currently in use to address current climate, climate variability, extremes and long-term climate change.

Report on the workshop on local coping strategies and technologies for adaptation

(PDF) Agenda

(PDF) List of Participants

Presentations

Exchange of experience on local coping strategies and technologies

Overview and cross-cutting issues

Presenter	Party/Organization	Subject
Mr. John Harding	UN ISDR	Community Coping Strategies - Integrating all of the factors of disaster risk (566 kB)
Mr. Bruce Hewitson	University of Cape Town	Impact of climate scenarios on vulnerability and coping (3806 kB)
Mr. Anand Patwardhan	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	Climate risk and adaptation: importance of local coping strategies (145 kB)
Mr. Selvaraju Ramasamy	Tamil Nadu Agricultural University	Building socio-biophysical resilience: learning from smallholder farming community for adaptation (588 kB)
Mr. Barry Smit	University of Guelph	Current coping strategies and adaptation to climate change (3561 kB)
Ms. Ko Barrett	USA	Mobilizing adaptation at the local level: the US approach (504 kB)
Mr. Thinley Namgyel	Bhutan	Local coping strategies and technologies for adaptation to climate change: Bhutan (566 kB)

Drought and aridity

Presenter	Party/Organization	Subject
Mr. Sanjoy Bandyopadhyay	UNDP	Coping strategy and vulnerability reduction to climate extremes (313 kB)
Ms. Valentina Idrissova	Kazakhstan	Local strategies to cope with climate variability and droughts in current agricultural practices in Kazakhstan (334 kB)
Mr. Mohammad Reza Mazandarani Haeri	Centre for Sustainable Development, Iran	Qanat, a technology for harvesting ground water (3931 kB)
Mr. Patrick Mushove	ERMAL Natural Resources Consultancy, Zimbabwe	Local level coping strategies to reduce impacts of droughts in southern Africa (120 kB)
Mr. Anthony Nyong	University of Jos, Nigeria	Livelihood strategies among poor rural households to cope with droughts in Northern Nigeria (262 kB)

Floods, cyclones and tropical storms

Presenter	Party/Organization	Subject
Mr. Ahsan Uddin Ahmed	BUP Center for Water and Environment, Bangladesh	Observed adaptations during moderate and high-intensity floods in Bangladesh (1354 kB)
Mr. Suppakorn Chinvanno	START Regional Center, Thailand	Increasing flood risk in the lower Mekong river region and direction for future adaptation (483 kB)
Mr. Paul V. Desanker	Penn State University/Miombo Network	Community level coping strategies for floods in Southern Africa (64 kB)
Ms. Lourdes Tibig	Philippines	Local coping strategies and local coping strategies and technologies for adaptation in the in the Philippines (1769 kB)
Mr. Samrat Sengupta	WWF, India	Adverse impacts of climate change: Perception and responses of local community - Sunderban Delta (733 kB)

Papers:

	Bhutan
	Colombia
	India
	Iran
	Japan
	United Kingdom
	Uzbekistan

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