Floods account for a majority of disasters, especially in South Asia, where they affect 27 million people annually, causing economic losses of over US$1 billion. Climate change threatens to exacerbate these risks. Risk transfer mechanisms, such as weather index insurance (WII) may help buffer far...
Aheeyar, Mohamed M.M.
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Silva, Sanjiv de
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Arulingam, Indika
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[Unpacking barriers to socially inclusive weather index insurance: towards a framework for inclusion]
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Unpacking barriers to socially inclusive weather index insurance: towards a framework for inclusion
There have been repeated calls for a ‘new professionalism’ for carrying out agricultural research for development since the 1990s. At the centre of these calls is a recognition that for agricultural research to support the capacities required to face global patterns of change and their implicatio...
Douthwaite, Boru
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Apgar, J.M.
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Schwarz, Anne-Maree
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Attwood, S.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Clayton, T.
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[A new professionalism for agricultural research for development]
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A new professionalism for agricultural research for development
Regular monitoring of wetlands is an essential element of management for 'wise use'. Indeed, the Ramsar convention requires routine monitoring in order to detect changes in the ecological character at listed sites. However, there are few examples of monitoring of tropical wetlands on a sustained ...
Pattanaik, C.
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Narendra Prasad, S.
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Nagabhatla, N.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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[CBD 2010 target: a case study of Kolleru Wetland (Ramsar Site), India using remote sensing and GIS]
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CBD 2010 target: a case study of Kolleru Wetland (Ramsar Site), India using remote sensing and GIS
Nagabhatla, Nidhi
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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[Understanding and documenting cross-disciplinary research in wetland systems]
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Understanding and documenting cross-disciplinary research in wetland systems
It is well known that whilst wetlands deliver a wide range of services vital for human well-being, they are being rapidly degraded and lost. Losses tend to be higher where human populations are increasing most and demands for economic development are greatest. Multidisciplinary management approac...
Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Silva, Sanjiv de
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Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie
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[Exploring relationships between conservation and poverty reduction in wetland ecosystems: lessons from 10 integrated wetland conservation and poverty reduction initiatives]
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Exploring relationships between conservation and poverty reduction in wetland ecosystems: lessons from 10 integrated wetland conservation and poverty reduction initiatives
This study combines a livelihoods approach with a regression approach to quantify the effectiveness of irrigation infrastructure investment on improving people’s livelihood strategies. Using a unique dataset based on households in southern Sri Lanka, and a natural experimental setting, we estimat...
Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Aida, T.
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Kasahara, R.
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Sawada, Y.
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Wijerathna, D.
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[How access to irrigation influences poverty and livelihoods: a case study from Sri Lanka]
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How access to irrigation influences poverty and livelihoods: a case study from Sri Lanka
In Laos, hydropower development is occurring at rapid, though controversial pace. While hydropower development could in principle contribute to the country’s development objectives to promote economic growth and reduce poverty, it also impacts people’s livelihoods especially local communities liv...
Katus, S
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Suhardiman, Diana
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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[When local power meets hydropower: Reconceptualizing resettlement along the Nam Gnouang River in Laos]
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When local power meets hydropower: Reconceptualizing resettlement along the Nam Gnouang River in Laos
As hydropower dam construction in rapidly growing economies dislodges communities, rural development experts must help the displaced make their livelihoods in new lacustrine environments. One question is whether the dam infrastructure can directly benefit those who remain within the vicinity of t...
Notions of benefit sharing play an increasingly important role in shaping the debate around the merits of existing and future hydropower development in the Mekong region. In this paperwe assess how the concept of benefit sharing is articulated and applied in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam....
The doubling of global food demand by 2050 is driving resurgence in interventions for agricultural intensification. Globally, 700 million people are dependent on floodplain or coastal systems. Increased productivity in these aquatic agricultural systems is important for meeting current and future...
Joffre, Olivier M.
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Castine, S.A.
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Phillips, M.J.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Chandrabalan, D.
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Cohen, P.
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[Increasing productivity and improving livelihoods in aquatic agricultural systems: a review of interventions]
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Increasing productivity and improving livelihoods in aquatic agricultural systems: a review of interventions