Journal
CLIMATIC CHANGE
Volume 114, Issue 2, Pages 295-300Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0392-2
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- Centre on Asia and Globalisation
- Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
- Singaporean Ministry of Education for an Academic Research Fund Grant
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This essay assesses the Integrating Climate Change Risks into Resilient Island Planning in the Maldives Program, or ICCR, a four-year $9.3 million adaptation project supported by the Least Developed Countries Fund, Maldivian Government and the United Nations Development Program. The essay elaborates on the types of challenges that arise as a low-income country tries to utilize international development assistance to adapt to climate change. Based primarily on a series of semi-structured research interviews with Maldivian experts, discussed benefits to the ICCR include improving physical resilience by deploying soft infrastructure, institutional resilience by training policymakers, and community resilience by strengthening assets. Challenges include ensuring that adaptation efforts are sufficient to reduce vulnerability, lack of coordination, and the values and attitudes of business and community leaders.
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