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IDB, 2007: Disaster Risk Management Policy. GN-2354-5, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC.
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IFRC, 2007, How to Do a VCA: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide for Red Cross Red Crescent Staff and Volunteers. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, Switzerland.
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IIED, 2009: Natural Resilience: Healthy ecosystems as climate shock insurance. IIED Policy Brief, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK.
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Khan, T.A., 2011: Floods increase wheat yield in KP. Inpaper Magazine, Pakistan, 16 May 2011.
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Lavell, A., 2003: Local level risk management: Concept and practices. CEPREDENAC-UNDP. Quito, Ecuador.
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Lavell, A., 2009: Technical Study in Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management in Development Planning and Policy. Study undertaken for the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC.
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Lavell, A., 2010: Unpacking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management: Searching for the Links and the Differences: A Conceptual and Epistemological Critique and Proposal. IUCN-FLACSO, International Union for Conservation of Nature - Latin American School of Social Sciences.
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Mastrandrea, M.D., C.B. Field, T.F. Stocker, O. Edenhofer, K.L. Ebi, D.J. Frame, H. Held, E. Kriegler, K.J. Mach, P.R. Matschoss, G.-K. Plattner, G.W. Yohe, and F.W. Zwiers, 2010: Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Geneva, Switzerland.
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McGray, H., A. Hammill, R. Bradley, E.L. Schipper, and J.-E. Parry, 2007: Weathering the Storm: Options for Framing Adaptation and Development. World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, 57 pp.
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Moench, M. and A. Dixit (eds.), 2004: Adaptive Capacity and Livelihood Resilience: Adaptive Capacities for Responding to Floods and Droughts in South Asia. Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Boulder, CO and Nepal.
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Parson, E., V. Burkett, K. Fisher-Vanden, D. Keith, L. Means, H. Pitcher, C. Rosenzweig, and M. Webster, 2007: Global Change Scenarios: Their Development and Use. Sub-report 2.1B of Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.1 by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, DC, 106 pp.
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Peters, G., A.M. DiGioia Jr, C. Hendrickson, and J. Apt, 2006: Transmission Line Reliability: Climate Change and Extreme Weather. Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center Working Paper CEIC-05-06, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
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Pettengell, C., 2010: Climate Change Adaptation: Enabling People Living in Poverty to Adapt. Oxfam International Research Report, Oxfam, Oxford, UK, 48 pp.
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Quarantelli, E.L, 1986: Disaster Crisis Management. Preliminary Papers 113, University of Delaware, Disaster Research Center. Newark, DE, http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/487.
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Ranger, N. and S.-L. Garbett-Shiels, 2011: How can Decision-Makers in Developing Countries Incorporate Uncertainty about Future Climate Risks into Existing Planning and Policymaking Processes? Policy Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in collaboration with the World Resources Report, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, www.worldresourcesreport.org/files/wrr/papers/wrr_ranger_uncertainty.pdf.
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Reeder, T. and N. Ranger, 2011: How Do You Adapt In an Uncertain World? Lessons from the Thames Estuary 2100 Project. World Resources Report, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, www.worldresourcesreport.org/files/wrr/papers/wrr_reeder_and_ranger_uncertainty.pdf.
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Sperling, F. and F. Szekely, 2005: Disaster Risk Management in Changing Climate. Discussion Paper prepared for the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on behalf of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group (VARG). Reprint with Addendum on Conference Outcomes, VARG, Washington, DC, 45 pp.
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TRB, 2008: The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation. Special Report 290, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. (See Appendix C: Commissioned paper: Climate Variability and Change with Implications for U.S. Transportation, Dec. 2006).
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