Exploring the Security Implications of Climate Change

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Final Program Report—Climate, Conflict, and Governance in Africa: Pinpointing Risks and Opportunities

CCAPS is a multi-year research effort to identify where and how climate change could undermine state stability, to define strategies for building African state capacity, and to assess global development aid responses. Based at the…

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Urban Resilience to Climate Change Challenges in Africa

The report is based on a year-long Policy Research Project course that was co-directed by Robert H. Wilson and Todd G. Smith during the 2012-2013 academic year. The project explores the role of local government…

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Climate Change Resilience Part II: The Resilience Policy Agenda

CCAPS Research Brief No. 30 examines how local governments are increasingly confronted with challenges resulting from weather events related to global climate change. This brief examines the efforts made by ten African cities to develop…

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Climate Change Resilience in Urban Africa Part I: The Policy Challenge

CCAPS Research Brief No. 29 explores how changing weather patterns, driven by global climate change, will generate additional challenges in the growing cities of Africa where high levels of poverty, strained infrastructure systems, and lack…

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Climate Change in Cities in Africa: Current Dilemnas and Future Challenges

In Course Module No. 4, CCAPS researcher Robert Wilson explores how climate change will affect people living in African cities. The answer to this complex question has two interrelated dimensions. It hinges on, first, the…

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Urban Resilience to Climate Change Challenges in Africa

In CCAPS Working Paper No. 4, Robert Wilson and Todd Smith examine the responses and adaptations to climate change within ten African cities. Using a comparative case study approach, field research was conducted on the…

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Urban Resilience to Climate Change in Africa

Graduate students in Dr. Robert Wilson’s Policy Research Project present research on the capacity of local governments to respond to the impacts of climate change. Students traveled to select African cities “including Accra, Ghana; Alexandria, Egypt;…

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