Indus Floods Research Project : final technical report; building research capacity to understand and adapt to climate change in the Indus Basin
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2013-07
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Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET)
Abstract
The main objective of the research was to generate knowledge on climate related hazards in the Indus Basin in Pakistan and their impact on marginalised communities, along with the factors that enable recovery following the floods. Prior research on hazards in Pakistan has demonstrated that vulnerability is constructed along class and gender inequalities and is embedded in everyday geographies of access to resources, state policies and social power. However, current infrastructure engineering and relief-oriented flood policy reflects little understanding of, or sensitivity to issues of social vulnerability.
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Some appendices catalogued separately
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Final Technical Report
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RESEARCH CAPACITY, FLOODING TOLERANCE, RIVER BASINS, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, NATURAL DISASTERS, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, VULNERABLE GROUPS, RESILIENCE, EMERGENCY RELIEF, PAKISTAN--INDUS RIVER, ACCESS TO PUBLIC SERVICES