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Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and Challenges
Due to rapid industrialization and urbanization in different parts of the
world over the past several decades, there have been serious effects on
climate. Available observational evidences indicate that regional changes in
climate, particularly fluctuations in temperature and rainfall, have already
affected a diverse set of physical and biological systems in many parts of the
world. International communities have tried to respond to these changing
phenomena by establishing high-level Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC). Numerous global treaties and protocols have been
formulated on climate change in different countries. However, climate
change impacts are found to be most severe in the grassroots-level
community, in the form of natural disasters such as droughts, floods, and
typhoons/cyclones, which affect the lives and livelihoods of people. Indirect
impacts of climate change are observed in the form of increasing poverty
and health issues in different ecosystems.
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