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Mainstreaming adaptation at various levels is important to realize an adaptive society. Integrating adaptation principles in education is an essential first step. Different aspect of ‘climate’, ‘change’, and ‘adaptation’ are being taught to different students in different universities. However, there is no single unified course that integrates all...

The lecture was divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview of adaptation, basic principles, and the need for adaptation. The second section looks at the means of mainstreaming climate change adaptation concerns in disaster risk reduction by using the concept of redundancy and transforming local level functionaries into...

This chapter is an attempt to link the disaster risk reduction and decision making under uncertainty. It is aimed at the disaster risk reduction personnel who are beginning to understand the linkages with climate change. Since this chapter is meant for a book that largely deals with disaster risk reduction and not climate change, the chapter starts...

Biofuels have been promoted in many Indian states as part of their rural development strategies, long before the recent finalisation of India’s national policy on biofuels, in order to generate employment and produce fuel locally using existing wastelands. To promote employment, some states have promoted biofuels using nationally sponsored...

インドでは最近、バイオ燃料に関する国家政策が最終決定されたが、多くの州では以前から、雇用創出や荒地を利用した燃料生産を目的とする農村開発政策の一環としてバイオ燃料が推進されてきた。雇用の促進に関しては、一部の州で全国農村雇用保障制度等の政府支援プログラムを活用したバイオ燃料の推進が図られており、同制度は、小規模農家や土地を持たない労働者に対して年間最低100日間の雇用保障を目標としている。また、州政府には、現地のニーズに応じた独自の開発プロジェクトを策定する柔軟性が与えられており、バイオ燃料作物の開発に焦点を当てたプロジェクトが実施されているところもある。 最も注目されているバイオ燃料作物はジャトロファであるが、他にクロヨナ等の作物を用いた取り組みも進められている...

The Bali Roadmap, agreed in COP 13, has brought the adaptation financing and governance issues to the fore front. It also effectively liked the issue of climate change with disaster risk reduction indicating various measures to be taken in a future climate framework in order to reduce climate risks effectively. This presentation, made at IGES-NIES...

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Biofuels have attracted significant interest because of their potential to reduce CO2 emissions, but the extent to which they can actually do so has not been clearly determined. Nevertheless, many countries in the region have either started producing or have plans to produce bioethanol and biodiesel, and have set long term targets for them to...

A wide range of options for adaptation to climate change is available in the agricultural sector. Prioritizing and monitoring such options for their effectiveness is vital for efficient utilization of financial, technological and human resources, and for addressing the issue of accountability in climate actions. However, the literature on measures...