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Este Documento de Trabajo explora los cambios relacionados con la inclusión y el marco del cambio climático en el Reino Unido la política de seguridad y las posibles implicaciones para la ayuda al desarrollo (AOD).
Esta investigación indica que los fuertes vínculos entre el cambio climático y la seguridad están presentes en los informes nacionales...
<p>Impacts of climate change will have a disproportional negative impact on developing countries (Stern 2007, IPCC 2007). Climate change will exacerbate problems related rapid population growth, existing poverty and a heavy reliance on agriculture and the environment. Developing countries have a much more limited capacity to cope with the problems caused by climate change. This...
In many countries, governments are seeking advice from a wide range of disciplines on the potential impacts of climate change on the environment and their society and economy. This handbook is designed to help those conducting research supporting such advice. Underlying the research are two fundamental questions: “What does climate change mean to us?” and “What might be...
This paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the urgency for relief and rehabilitation, donors may opt to collaborate with the ruling military regime. However, the international community must not allow it...
This research paper captures the current reflections and concerns in Afghanistan about the strategy and expectations for the reintegration and reconciliation processes in the country. The paper also covers the challenges facing these processes.
The author believes that the current Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme (APRP) is based on flawed assumptions. Indeed, a...
<p>We must mitigate and adapt to climate change. On this, the international community is agreed. But exactly how to do that is still up for debate. There were high hopes that last year’s UN climate talks in Copenhagen would deliver a legally binding agreement for action on climate change. But the outcome — the Copenhagen Accord — was instead a political...
<p>Did Bristish expansion in India constitute a threat to survival and security of the emergent Gorkha state? If such a threat existed, was Gorkhali reaction one of fear, precaution or heightened activity towards internal unity and external security?</p>
<p>The author seeks to address these questions, taking into account the problem of establishing what the Nepali...
<p>Colonel Kilpatrick's mission to Nepal was undertaken in early 1793. His itinerary lasted less than seven weeks, from February 13 until April 3. The cause of the mission lay as far as Nepal was concerned, in the danger that was looming large in the north just before the start of the Nepal-Tibet war of 1972. Nepal wanted military help from the British government of Bengal to...
<p>The Kot Massacre of 1846 gave sufficient power to Jang Bahadur to establish his dictatorial rule in Nepal. The butchery began after the murder of Gagan Singh, the power behind the throne on the 14th of September. Almost all the spirited nobles and the highest officers were either killed or exiled. King Rajendra Bikram Shah was on the throne. He was intimidated. He, against his...
<p>This book of the story of King Hangshu Dewa and his minister Wokde in Rong or Lepcha script was owned by a Lepcha called Nalengbo of Bom Basti of Kalimpong. When he learned of the author's interest in Lepcha script, he gave him the book in 1925. It is a story of civilisation and culture of ancient Nepal recorded by the Lepcha Kirat people of the east. It tells of the conversion...
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