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Climate, Disasters and Development post-2015, IDS Virtual Bulletin, Issue 4 (2013)
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(2013). Climate, Disasters and Development post-2015, IDS Virtual Bulletin, Issue 4. Brighton

The year 2015 will be pivotal for climate change, disasters, and development. In all three areas, new international frameworks are due to be agreed to guide policy and action. These include the framework and targets to take forward the current Millen... Read More about Climate, Disasters and Development post-2015, IDS Virtual Bulletin, Issue 4.

Policy climates and climate policies: Analysing the politics of building urban climate change resilience (2013)
Journal Article
Bahadur, A., & Tanner, T. (2014). Policy climates and climate policies: Analysing the politics of building urban climate change resilience. Urban Climate, 7, 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2013.08.004

This paper examines the process of building resilience to climate change in urban areas by scrutinising the manner in which initiatives to build resilience interact with the urban policy environments in which they unfold. The urban policy environment... Read More about Policy climates and climate policies: Analysing the politics of building urban climate change resilience.

Social justice and low carbon development (2013)
Book Chapter
Tanner, T., & Harvey, B. Social justice and low carbon development. In F. Urban, & J. Nordensvard (Eds.), Low Carbon Development: Key Issues (55-65). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203108628-7

The shift to low carbon development implies winners and losers. This chapter explores some of the different dimensions and interpretations of equity and social justice in the context of climate change and development. It initially examines the domina... Read More about Social justice and low carbon development.

Learning to tackle climate change: innovative approaches to knowledge sharing and co-production in highly dispersed development organisations (2013)
Journal Article
Tanner, T., Jackson, C., Seballos, F., & Clark, J. (2013). Learning to tackle climate change: innovative approaches to knowledge sharing and co-production in highly dispersed development organisations. Knowledge management for development journal, 9(1), 9-23

Tackling climate change in the context of development requires particular attention to reflection and learning. In part this is because of the new sources of additional uncertainty and cross-sectoral complexity that it introduces, but also because of... Read More about Learning to tackle climate change: innovative approaches to knowledge sharing and co-production in highly dispersed development organisations.

Social Protection and Climate Change: A paper prepared for the OECD-DAC Task Team on Social Protection (2013)
Report
Béné, C., Cannon, T., Davies, M., Newsham, A., & Tanner, T. (2013). Social Protection and Climate Change: A paper prepared for the OECD-DAC Task Team on Social Protection

The report is submitted for COMMENT and DISCUSSION under Agenda Item 5 of the 15th ENVIRONET meeting. It was prepared as part of the work of the OECD-DAC Task Team on Social Protection. Following integration of the comments from ENVIRONET Members, th... Read More about Social Protection and Climate Change: A paper prepared for the OECD-DAC Task Team on Social Protection.

Planning “Exceptionalism”? Political Economy of Climate Resilient Development in Bangladesh (2013)
Book Chapter
Alam, K., Tanner, T., Shamsuddoha, M., Mamunur Rashid, A. K. M., Sultana, M., Huq, M. J., Kabir, S. S., & Ullah, S. Planning “Exceptionalism”? Political Economy of Climate Resilient Development in Bangladesh. In R. Shaw, F. Mallick, & A. Islam (Eds.), Climate Change Adaptation Actions in Bangladesh (387-417). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54249-0_20

Following three major disasters in 2007, Bangladesh intensified its effort to tackle climate change through development of the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP). The process of plan formulation led to debates nationally and... Read More about Planning “Exceptionalism”? Political Economy of Climate Resilient Development in Bangladesh.

Addressing water security in China: screening for climate impacts and adaptation responses (2013)
Book Chapter
Xia, J., Tanner, T., & Holman, I. (2013). Addressing water security in China: screening for climate impacts and adaptation responses. In J. Palutikof, S. L. Boulter, A. J. Ash, M. Stafford Smith, M. Parry, M. Waschka, & D. Guitart (Eds.), Climate Adaptation Futures (287-293). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118529577.ch27

This chapter describes a systematic screening approach to assess and manage the potential impact of climate change on development projects and programmes, piloted in the water sector in China. The adaptation screening framework was piloted in three p... Read More about Addressing water security in China: screening for climate impacts and adaptation responses.

Characterising resilience: unpacking the concept for tackling climate change and development (2013)
Journal Article
Bahadur, A., Ibrahim, M., & Tanner, T. Characterising resilience: unpacking the concept for tackling climate change and development. Climate and Development, 5(1), 55-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2012.762334

The term ‘resilience’ is increasingly used in the context of discussion, policies and programming around climate change adaptation1
This paper works with the following definition of climate change adaptation, ‘is a process by which strategies to mod... Read More about Characterising resilience: unpacking the concept for tackling climate change and development.