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Occasional Papers: Topical background research for the HDR

• Arroyo, Vicki, and Peter Linguiti. "Current Directions in the Climate Change Debate in the United States" [486 KB]

• Barker, Terry, and Katie Jenkins. "The Costs of Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change" [265 KB]

• Boykoff, Maxwell T, and J. Timmons Roberts. "Media Coverage of Climate Change" [578 KB]

• de la Fuente, Alejandro, and Ricardo Fuentes. "The Impact of Natural Disasters on Children Morbidity in Rural Mexico" [211 KB]

• Helm, Dieter. "Climate change" [218 KB]

• Henderson, Caspar. "Carbon Budget—the agenda for mitigation" [494 KB]

• IGAD, ICPAC. "Climate Change and Human Development in Africa" [2,305 KB]

• O’Brien, Karen, and Robin Leichenko. "Human Security, Vulnerability and Sustainable Adaptation" [251 KB]

• Osbahr, Henny. "Building resilience" [252 KB]

• Perelet, Renat. "Central Asia" [764 KB]

• Perelet, Renat, Serguey Pegov and Mikhail Yulkin. "Climate Change" [425 KB]

• Rahman, A. Atiq, Mozaharul Alam, Sarder Shafiqul Alam, Md. Rabi Uzzaman, Mariam Rashid and Golam Rabbani. "Risks, Vulnerability and Adaptation in Bangladesh" [3,908 KB]

• Reid, Hannah, and Saleemul Huq. "International and National Mechanisms and Politics of Adaptation" [183 KB]

• Seck, Papa. "Links between Natural Disasters, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Risk Reduction" [342 KB]

• Watson, Jim, Gordon MacKerron, David Ockwell and Tao Wang. "Technology and carbon mitigation in developing countries" [361 KB]

Thematic Papers

• Brown, Oli. "Climate change and forced migration" [303 KB]

• Carvajal, Liliana. "Impacts of Climate Change on Human Development" [461 KB]

• Conceição, Pedro, Yanchun Zhang and Romina Bandura. "Brief on Discounting in the Context of Climate Change Economics" [396 KB]

• Conde, Cecilia, Sergio Saldaña, and Víctor Magaña. "Thematic Regional Paper" [264 KB]

• de Buen, Odón. "Decarbonizing Growth in Mexico" [175 KB]

• de la Fuente, Alejandro. "Private and Public Responses to Climate Shocks" [297 KB]

• de la Fuente, Alejandro. "Climate Shocks and their Impact on Assets" [244 KB]

• Dobie, Philip, Barry Shapiro, Patrick Webb and Mark Winslow. "How do Poor People Adapt to Weather Variability and Natural Disasters Today?" [480 KB]

• Gaye, Amie. "Access to Energy and Human Development" [331 KB]

• Kelkar, Ulka, and Suruchi Bhadwal. "South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation" [728 KB]

• Khoday, Kishan. "Climate Change and the Right to Development" [616 KB]

• Krznaric, Roman. "Food coupons and bald mountains" [360 KB]

• Krznaric, Roman. "For God’s Sake, Do Something!" [318 KB]

• Kuonqui, Christopher. "Responding to Clear and Present Dangers" [54 KB]

• Leiserowitz, Anthony. "Public Perception, Opinion and Understanding of Climate Change" [4,866 KB]

• Li, Junfeng. "Mitigation Country Study" [248 KB]

• Mathur, Ritu, and Preety Bhandari. "Living Within a Carbon Budget" [391 KB]

• Matus Kramer, Arnoldo. "Adaptation to Climate Change in Poverty Reduction Strategies" [129 KB]

• Menon, Roshni. "Famine in Malawi" [164 KB]

• Newell, Peter. "The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond" [188 KB]

• Tolan, Sandy. "Coverage of Climate Change in Chinese Media" [69 KB]

• Volpi, Giulio. "Climate Mitigation, Deforestation and Human Development in Brazil" [1,406 KB]

• Winkler, Harald, and Andrew Marquard. "Energy Development and Climate Change" [270 KB]

• Yue, Li, Lin Erda and Li Yan. "Impacts of, and Vulnerability and Adaptation to, Climate Change in Water Resources and Agricultural Sectors in China" [431 KB]

Issue Notes

• Arredondo Brun, Juan Carlos. "Adapting to Impacts of Climate Change on Water Supply in Mexico City" [1,006 KB]

• Bambaige, Albertina. "National Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change Impacts" [344 KB]

• Birch, Isobel, and Richard Grahn. "Pastoralism" [130 KB]

• Canales Davila, Caridad, and Alberto Carillo Pineda. "Spain Country Study" [98 KB]

• Chaudhry, Peter, and Greet Ruysschaert. "Climate Change and Human Development in Viet Nam" [224 KB]

• Cornejo, Pilar. "Ecuador Case Study" [793 KB]

• Czisch, Gregor, and Jürgen Schmid. "Mitigation Country Study for Germany" [165 KB]

• Donner, Simon D. "Canada Country Study" [93 KB]

• Lemos, Maria Carmen. "Drought, Governance and Adaptive Capacity in North East Brazil" [100 KB]

• Meinshausen, Malte. "Stylized Emission Path" [703 KB]

• Nangoma, Everhart. "National Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change Impacts" [81 KB]

• Nguyen, Huu Ninh. "Flooding in Mekong River Delta, Viet Nam" [705 KB]

• Orindi, Victor A., Anthony Nyong and Mario Herrero. "Pastoral Livelihood Adaptation to Drought and Institutional Interventions in Kenya" [338 KB]

• Painter, James. "Deglaciation in the Andean Region" [240 KB]

• Pederson, Peter D. "Japan" [448 KB]

• Regmi, Bimal R., and A. Adhikari. "Country Case Study" [228 KB]

• Salem, Boshra. "Sustainable Management of the North African Marginal Drylands" [172 KB]

• Seck, Papa. "The Rural Energy Challenge in Senegal" [98 KB]

• Sullivan, Rory. "Australia Country Study" [176 KB]

• Trigoso Rubio, Erika. "Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Peru" [335 KB]