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Item Adapting to climate change and water security in Asia : proceedings from the Regional Meeting for IDRC-funded partners in Asia working on climate change adaptation research(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2013) IDRCThe meeting brought together partners from 20 research projects in Asia that are funded through IDRC's Climate Change and Water (CCW) program. These projects explore climate change adaptation through a range of different thematic entry points, including coastal vulnerability, peri-urban and urban water security, disaster risk reduction, and water governance. The objective of the meeting was to enable knowledge sharing between researchers on lessons learned in utilizing some key methods: economic analysis, social vulnerability assessment, biophysical modeling; and to explore how effective results can be produced from research to strengthen adaptation policies, plans, and actions in the Asia region.Item Adapting to climate change in peri-urban Southeast Asia(Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), 2013) Resurrección, Bernadette P.The presentation provides an overview of research to identify the drivers of vulnerability (including both men and women’s experiences) to climate-related water stresses in three selected peri-urban areas in Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines. The theoretical framework utilizes a political ecology approach to investigate vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies, and to assess institutionally-organized and supported adaptation programs with gender analysis. Early results and implications for policy as well as further research are included.Item Adapting to Climate Change in Urbanizing Watersheds (ACCUWa) : situation in Arkavathy basin(Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, 2013) Srinivasan, VeenaThe research entailed a comparative study of climate change‐water vulnerability and adaptation in two urbanizing watersheds. The presentation underlines multiple levels of complexity where the approach of blindly applying historical rainfall‐runoff relationships to predict future water supply are no longer valid. With climate change, multiple scales of vulnerability need also be factored in: climate variability occurs at the basin scale, whereas vulnerability is experienced at the household scale. As well, different areas of the watershed are vulnerable to different supply variability pathways. A new approach to planning for climate vulnerability will encompass multiple stressors.Item Addressing water stress through wastewater reuse : complexities and challenges in Bangalore, India(ICLEI, 2014) Jamwal, P.; Thomas, B.K.; Lele, S.; Srinivasan, V.The paper argues that upstream waste water re-use (WWRU) may not be as straightforward as city planners assume. Potential impacts downstream and the techno-institutional context need to be addressed with WWRU as one strategy to reduce water stress. Three challenges with WWRU are discussed using data from the study of wastewater treatment, an analysis of ongoing debates regarding the scale of treatment, and an ongoing study of the downstream uses and impacts of polluted water. Bangalore’s wastewater enters the Vrishabhavathy and the Pinakini river basins in almost equal quantities. This study focuses on the Vrishabhavathy River.Item Alternatives for safe water provision in urban and peri-urban slums(2010) Ali, Syed ImranIn response to rapid urbanization throughout the global South, urban and peri-urban slums are expanding at an alarming rate. Owing to inadequate financial and institutional resources at the municipal level, conventional approaches for safe water provision with centralized treatment and distribution infrastructure have been unable to keep pace with rapidly growing demand. In the absence of alternatives to centralized systems, a global public health emergency of infectious water-related diseases has developed. Alternative decentralized water treatment systems have been promoted in recent years as a means of achieving rapid health gains among vulnerable populations. Though much work with decentralized systems, especially in urban environments, has been at the household level, there is also considerable potential for development at the community level. Both levels of approach have unique sets of advantages and disadvantages that, just as with treatment technologies, may make certain options more appropriate than others in a particular setting. Integrating community, government and other relevant stakeholders into the process of systems development and implementation is essential if the outcome is to be appropriate to local circumstances and sustainable in the long term.Item Analysing the cost of adapting to climate change(International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 2012-05) Fisher, SuzanneHow do you estimate the cost of adaptation to climate change on vulnerable communities, where stakeholders are involved in identifying costs and benefits? Project benefits – and the importance of those benefits – are different depending on which stakeholders you ask. ‘Stakeholders’ is NGO jargon for all the groups impacted by the climate change adaptation projects being studied, such as the national or local government, the local community (including local farmers), and the private sector. A workshop looks at approaches to cost benefit analysis, where classic analysis doesn’t account for non-monetary benefits.Item Building effective water governance in the Asian Highlands(Asian Highlands, 2013) Asian HighlandsThe project included a hydrological study based on the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BoN) framework - comparative analysis climate change modelling. This is a globally consistent bio-climatic stratification based upon a statistical quantitative approach using spatially distributed climate data. Using this model, calculations are provided regarding bioclimatic zones and predicted changes in distribution by the year 2050. Bioclimatic zones can be matched to Ecoregions, Vegetation Types, and Forest Classes. Results are shown through graphic synthesis and simulations.Item Centre for Regional Studies, School of Social Sciences, Hyderabad Central University : presentation(South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs), Hyderabad, IN, 2012-07) Prakash, AnjalThe presentation focuses on ideas of the “peri-urban” in terms of process, concept and features rather than as a fixed geographical space around the city. The peri-urban is then used as a conceptual lens to study rural-urban relationships and flows of water/water security and insecurity. Details of peri-urban climate and water management in Kathmandu (Nepal) and Khulna (Bangladesh) are expanded upon. Planning and governance must consider the interrelationship between rural and urban water flows.Item Changing climate : implications, responses and vulnerability (people's perspective)(Nepal Engineering College, 2013) Nepal Engineering CollegeKnowledge of climatic uncertainty needs to be communicated to the local level so that people are able to adapt. Local level institutions need to get involved so that environmental stress is not felt as only a household level problem. The presentation uses a “Livelihood Vulnerability Assessment” and documents the perceptions of local people in three areas regarding water availability, climatic changes, changes in agricultural practices and pests.Item Chilika - climate change : strengthening livelihood security and adapting to climate uncertainty in Chilika Lagoon, India(Chilika Development Authority, 2013) Kumar, Ritesh; Rastogi, GurdeepThe Chilika Lagoon climate change project worked to identify management response options and strategies for reducing risks and increasing community preparedness for changes in wetland ecosystem services due to climate change. Dynamics of water, sediment, nutrient and species exchange define the ecosystem services of the diverse wetland regime; wetlands disaster risk and perception of risk was assessed, taking livelihoods and hydrometric stations into consideration. Ecological character was also evaluated over time (1966-2010). Developing a methodology manual for wetlands managers is a next step. The presentation includes photos and graphics.Item Climate change adaptation research in Asia(2013)This two page presentation outlines a regional workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal, describing subject matter, objectives and projected outcomes. The workshop brings partners together from South Asia and China to share and learn from results of 20 projects regarding climate adaptation.Item Climate change and water governance in Cambodia(Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI), 2013) Chem, Phalla; Kim, SourThe presentation looks at climate change adaptation from the perspective of how change in natural and human systems determine vulnerability and adaptive capacity of rural populations and the government responses. It analyzes the institutional and policy level frameworks that impinge on water governance, using the case of Tonle Sap lake. A unique multi‐partner project is by far the most difficult process towards resilience, and poses an important challenge for coordination, but the presentation considers it the most workable for policy influence.Item Climate change policy making : case study of Nepal's LAPA; connecting research and policy(ISET-Nepal, 2013) Dixit, AjayaNational programmes do not reach the local level for effective action and hence will not reach the most vulnerable people. Nepal is fourth in terms of international climate change vulnerability. In terms of local adaptation planning action (LAPA), the presentation advocates for a systems approach to help understand power balance and imbalances and social differentials; to generate and integrate ideas; and to engage in constructive dialogue.Item Climate change, salinity intrusion and water insecurity in peri-urban Khulna, Bangladesh(Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2013) Khan, Shah AlamKhulna is the third largest metropolitan city in Bangladesh and one of the five biggest river ports. The presentation provides back ground to increased urbanization in terms of topography and geography. Climate change factors such as increases in temperature, humidity and rainfall are factored in, with implications for water (in)security. Low lands and fallow lands are decreasing whereas the built-up areas are increasing and projected to expand to 33% while water bodies are reduced to 3%. Recommendations include some adaptation practices as well as community action and advocacy based on research.Item Climate, water and vulnerabilities : climatic trend and variability in South Asia and their potential implications for peri-urban water security(Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, BD, 2013) Mondal, M. ShahjahanSouth Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate change because of burgeoning coastal and peri-urban populations, poor environmental management, high incidence of poverty and heavy dependency on subsistence agriculture. Cyclone, land slide, drought, flood, etc., are the major climatic and hydrologic hazards that often jeopardize human and economic development. Ensuring water security for maintaining basic, livelihood, and ecological services in developing nations is particularly challenging. The presentation measures water insecurity and implications for urbanized areas of South Asia with tables of trends in vulnerability.Item Coastal mega-cities at risk(Manila Observatory, 2013) Loyzaga, Antonia Y.The presentation provides an in-depth report on groundwater usage and changes in the urban population of Metro Manila with parallel changes of supply and demand on a diminishing watershed. Increased climate change vulnerability is determined by socioeconomic development impacts and interactions with natural climate variations (rainfall, monsoons), as well as human-caused climate change which cumulatively add up to influence disaster risk.Item Communicating climate change risks for adaptation in coastal and delta communities in Vietnam(National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies, 2013) Tan Sinh, Bach; Quynh Anh, NguyenThe presentation illustrates how a shared learning dialogue (SLD) operates when utilized by different groups, and how to facilitate SLD’s for diverse stakeholders in at-risk communities. Application of SLD would need to answer questions towards identifying actors, purposes, messages, channels and tools of risk communication, such as: Who are the targeted audience? Who need to be involved in communication activities? What are the purposes of communication? What are the key messages? What tools and styles should be used? When should we do communication?Item Communicating climate change risks for adaptation in coastal and delta communities in Vietnam - the case of policy makers in Quy Nhon City(National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies, 2013) Tan Sinh, Bach; Quynh Anh, NguyenThe presentation consists of communication to policy makers in Quy Nhon City regarding flooding and urban development. Recommendations include: Use participatory models of communication; Use local stories and examples as much as possible; Work through local partners; Build on what people already know/understand; Be conscious of gender.Item Communication strategy in action research on water security in four South Asian peri-urban locations : CCW Asia Regional Partners Meeting, June 19-20, 2013, Kathmandu, Nepal(IWFM, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2013) Khan, M. Shah AlamCommunication is best viewed as a process of sustained engagement rather than just a link for dissemination. This presentation provides guidance regarding best practices in targeting communication towards affecting policy, and supports the notion that communication and research are not parallel activities; effective communication needs to be grounded in research. It references three campaigns: ‘Save the Mayur’ (Khulna); ‘Save Our Urban Lakes’ (Hyderabad); and, ‘Water Source Conservation’ (Kathmandu).
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