title: Climate Change 2007 - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC
author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
description: "Every member of Congress should read this report."<br />The New York Times<br /><br />"The WGII [Working Group II] report provides a balanced and objective synthesis of state-of-the-art knowledge on how climate change will impact Earth's natural and managed systems. The quality of the writing is excellent and succinct, and figure quality is superb. Given the nature of the synthesis, references used are current and appropriate, while technical terms are usefully defined in a comprehensive glossary. This WGII report is essential reading for all scientists and policymakers involved in climate change research." - Anson Mackay, Journal of Environmental Quality
zlib_text: Community-Based Adaptation to 
  Climate Change
  As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched 
  by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions 
  over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. 
  Community- based adaptation (CBA) is one growing approach that argues for 
  tailored support at the local level to enable vulnerable people to identify and 
  implement appropriate community- based responses to climate change 
  themselves.
   
  Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it up explores the 
  challenges for meeting the scale of the adaptation challenge through CBA. It 
  asks the fundamental questions: How can we draw replicable lessons to move 
  from place- based projects towards more programmatic adaptation planning? 
  How does CBA ﬁt with larger scale adaptation policy and programmes? How 
  are CBA interventions situated within the institutions that enable or undermine 
  adaptive capacity?
   
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