Pathways to adaptation and resilience in North and Central Asia

Pathways to Adaptation and Resilience in North and Central Asia takes forward the analysis of the Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2021 and demonstrates how the subregion is being affected by various risk parameters, and where new hotspots of exposure and vulnerability to climate induced, cascading multi-hazard scenarios are being created. The report presents critical solutions …

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Relieving water stress by optimizing crop structure is a practicable approach in arid transboundary rivers of Central Asia

With the challenges of arid transboundary river water management among Central Asian countries, it is important to evaluate the water stress and propose practicable climate adaptation strategies. This study used the Syr Darya Basin (SDB) in a Central Asia data-scarce region as the study area and, conducted the first quantified analysis of the spatiotemporal characteristics …

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Droughts and Welfare in Afghanistan

This paper studies the effect of the 2018 drought on household consumption and poverty in Afghanistan, a semi-arid and conflict-affected country. The paper combines geolocated household data with remote-sensing weather data on precipitation, vegetation, and temperature. The findings show that drought-like conditions decreased monthly per capita consumption expenditures and hence increased poverty, with a highly …

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Climate Risk Profile: Central Asia

Overview of historical and future climate trends of the region, current climate plans and strategies in the region, and projects that are implemented to limit climate change effects.

Climate dilemmas in Central Asia

The climate change situation will lead to inevitable detrimental consequences for Tajikistan through current glacier melting and water source issues. Serious economic issues and poverty are being currently experienced in Tajikistan, which takes the focus of the government’s monetary police away from climate centered projects.

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