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    Risk Financing for Rural Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Subregion
    Risk Financing for Rural Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Subregion
    Risk Financing for Rural Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Subregion
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    Risk Financing for Rural Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Subregion

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    Rural communities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are vulnerable to climate-related disasters. In 2008, tropical cyclone Nargis killed 84,500 people and impacted the livelihood of 2.4 million people. In 2011, large-scale floods in Thailand affected 14 million people and caused $45.7 billion in damages. This report presents findings of a climate risk financing study conducted by the GMS Core Environment Program in 28 rural communities in Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Viet Nam. Learn more about how communities cope with climate hazards, how this study contributes to the knowledge base on rural climate risk financing in the GMS, and how it can become the basis for more comprehensive feasibility studies on climate risk financing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAsian Development Bank
    Release dateMay 1, 2017
    ISBN9789292578343
    Risk Financing for Rural Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Subregion

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      Risk Financing for Rural Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Subregion - Asian Development Bank

      Risk Financing for Rural Climate Resilience in the Greater Mekong Subregion

      Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO license (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

      © 2017 Asian Development Bank

      6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines

      Tel +63 2 632 4444; Fax +63 2 636 2444

      www.adb.org

      Some rights reserved. Published in 2017.

      ISBN 978-92-9257-833-6 (Print), 978-92-9257-834-3 (e-ISBN)

      Publication Stock No. TCS178804-2

      http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS178804-2

      GMS Environment Operations Center

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      999/9 Rama 1 Road, Pathumwan

      Bangkok 10330

      Tel +66 2 207 4444; Fax +66 2 207 4400

      E-mail: info@gms-eoc.org

      Website: www.gms-eoc.org

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      In this publication, $ refers to US dollars, D refers to Vietnamese dong and KN refers to Cambodian kip. Corrigenda to ADB publications may be found at http://www.adb.org/publications/corrigenda

      Photos by GMS Environment Operations Center.

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      Acknowledgments

      This publication was coauthored by Ornsaran Pomme Manuamorn, Sommarat Chantarat, and Duncan McLeod, Asian Development Bank (ADB) consultants for the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Core Environment Program (CEP).

      The authors would like to thank Pavit Ramachandran, senior environment specialist, ADB and project officer for the CEP. The authors also greatly appreciate the peer review of Charlotte Benson, principal disaster risk management specialist, ADB, and Shannon Wang, a former CEP consultant.

      This publication is based on a CEP climate risk financing study led by Sommarat Chantarat. The authors likewise acknowledge the efforts of the many people who made the study possible. Particular thanks

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