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Put equity first in climate adaptation

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  • Mark Pelling
  • Matthias Garschagen

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Focusing on the bottom few per cent, not averages, is the best way to tackle poverty, argue Mark Pelling and Matthias Garschagen.

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  • Mark Pelling & Matthias Garschagen, 2019. "Put equity first in climate adaptation," Nature, Nature, vol. 569(7756), pages 327-329, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:569:y:2019:i:7756:d:10.1038_d41586-019-01497-9
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-01497-9
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    2. Risa Nakamura & Akiyuki Kawasaki, 2022. "Quantitative Evaluation of Flood Control Measures and Educational Support to Reduce Disaster Vulnerability of the Poor Based on Household-level Savings Estimates," Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Springer, vol. 6(2), pages 355-371, July.
    3. Jason Miklian & Kristian Hoelscher, 2020. "Entrepreneurial Strategies to Address Rural-Urban Climate-Induced Vulnerabilities: Assessing Adaptation and Innovation Measures in Dhaka, Bangladesh," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-19, November.
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    7. Pedro Henrique Campello Torres & Demerval Aparecido Gonçalves & Flávia Mendes de Almeida Collaço & Kauê Lopes dos Santos & Katia Canil & Wilson Cabral de Sousa Júnior & Pedro Roberto Jacobi, 2020. "Vulnerability of the São Paulo Macro Metropolis to Droughts and Natural Disasters: Local to Regional Climate Risk Assessments and Policy Responses," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-16, December.
    8. Deepal Doshi & Matthias Garschagen, 2020. "Understanding Adaptation Finance Allocation: Which Factors Enable or Constrain Vulnerable Countries to Access Funding?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-18, May.
    9. Marion Borderon & Kelsea B. Best & Karen Bailey & Doug L. Hopping & Mackenzie Dove & Chelsea L. Cervantes de Blois, 2021. "The risks of invisibilization of populations and places in environment-migration research," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 8(1), pages 1-11, December.
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    11. Gian Carlo Delgado Ramos, 2021. "Climate-Environmental Governance in the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Area: Assessing Local Institutional Capacities in the Face of Current and Future Urban Metabolic Dynamics," World, MDPI, vol. 2(1), pages 1-17, January.

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