Promoting Resilient Livelihoods through Adaptive Social Protection: Lessons from 124 programmes in South Asia

Development Policy Review

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-58

  Davies, Mark ^a   Béné, Christophe ^a   Arnall, Alexander ^a,b   Tanner, Thomas ^a   Newsham, Andrew ^a   Coirolo, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive social protection; Climate change adaptation; Disaster risk reduction; Social protection; South Asia; Vulnerability reduction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COPING STRATEGY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; VULNERABILITY;

SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84871174102     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: 14677679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2013.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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