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Janani Vivekananda on Strengthening Resilience to Climate Variability in South Asia
February 22, 2013 By Carolyn Lamere
“Building resilience should help address the root causes of vulnerability, creating increased capacity to be able to adapt to a range of possible climate futures, not just cope with… specific climate impacts,” says International Alert’s Janani Vivekananda. Otherwise, if the specific impacts don’t play out, “in a fragile context that could be quite destabilizing and seen as a wasted opportunity.”
“Building resilience should help address the root causes of vulnerability, creating increased capacity to be able to adapt to a range of possible climate futures, not just cope with… specific climate impacts,” says International Alert’s Janani Vivekananda. Otherwise, if the specific impacts don’t play out, “in a fragile context that could be quite destabilizing and seen as a wasted opportunity.”
In this podcast, Vivekananda talks about nine case studies conducted by International Alert in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal examining vulnerability to environmental risks and resilience. She presented at the Wilson Center on February 7.
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