Action Research with Children: Lessons from Tackling Disasters and Climate Change
Published by: IDS
Recent research and practice from the fields of climate change adaptation and disaster management has created a shift from emphasis of...
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Published by: IDS
Recent research and practice from the fields of climate change adaptation and disaster management has created a shift from emphasis of...
The project aims to expand our knowledge of the specific attributes of volunteering as a development mechanism and the unique ways in which volunteering impacts on poverty.
This study presents a novel way to separately investigate trends during the past decade regarding the impact of extensive and intensive disasters on child welfare and development. Studies covered a broad variety of countries located in different geographical regions and exposed to different types of hazard.
This article draws on findings from a multi-sited study of international science policy processes in rice biofortification.
This research seeks to overcome the accountability gap in processes intending to operationalise state accountability for disaster risk reduction (DRR), by understanding accountability in development as a social and political process with a focus on the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in empowering citizens to hold policymakers to account.
Strengthening Climate Resilience has created the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Approach (CSDRM) for disaster risk managers, policy-makers and researchers. The CSDRM approach incorporates climate change resilience into the way we plan for, and respond to, natural disasters impacting vulnerable communities.
Published by: Wiley
Children and young people are commonly treated in the climate change and disasters literature as victims of natural events requiring protection by adults. This article critiques that narrative, drawing on examples from the Philippines and El Salvador that explore how children's groups have responded to such issues through child-centred initiatives.
Published by: Zed Books
How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? This book brings together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines.
Published by: Zed Books
Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance,...