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Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)

• Heat stress: vulnerability, health impacts, and coping strategies in rural communities in the semi-arid region of Maharashtra, India

  Increasing temperatures are likely to impact human health. An increase in severe heat wave days and heat mortalities has been observed in India over the past few decades. A report by National Disaster

  • 01/10/2018

  • Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)
  • • Heat Waves
    • Rural Health
    • Maharashtra
    • India
    • Jalna (D)
    • Health Effects

• Assessing climate change risks and contextual vulnerability in urban areas of semi-arid India: the case of Bangalore

  The discourse on urban vulnerability over the last decade and a half has undergone substantial shifts prompted by differences in disciplinary orientations. This enables multiple framings and causal linkages,

  • 01/08/2016

  • Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Urbanisation
    • Bangalore
    • India
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Mitigation

• Policies, projects and people: exploring the adaptation-development spectrum in India

  This paper charts the institutions and actors in the climate change adaptation (CCA) space in rural and urban semi-arid India and finds that development and adaptation span a continuum in policy and practice.

  • 01/08/2016

  • Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Adaptation
    • India
    • Development
    • Sustainable Development