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Kryspin-Watson, J., J. Arkedis, and W. Zakout, 2006: Mainstreaming Hazard Risk Management into Rural Projects. Disaster Risk Management. World Bank, Washington, DC.
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Kuhn, K., D. Campbell-Lendrum, A. Haines, and J. Cox, 2005. Using Climate to Predict Infectious Disease Epidemics. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2005/9241593865.pdf.
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Kunkel, K.E., P.D. Bromirski, H.E. Brooks, T. Cavazos, A.V. Douglas, D.R. Easterling, K.A. Emanuel, P.Y. Groisman, G.J. Holland, T.R. Knutson, J.P. Kossin, P.D. Komar, D.H. Levinson, and R.L. Smith, 2008: Observed changes in weather and climate extremes. In: Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands. [Karl, T.R., G.A. Meehl, D.M. Christopher, S.J. Hassol, A.M. Waple, and W.L. Murray (eds.)]. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, DC, pp. 35-80.
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Kurukulasuriya, P. and R. Mendelsohn, 2008: How Will Climate Change Shift Agro-Ecological Zones and Impact African Agriculture? Policy Research Working Paper Series 4717, World Bank, Washington, DC, 31 pp., www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/09/11/000158349_20080911163038/Rendered/PDF/WPS4717.pdf.
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La Trobe, S. and I. Davis, 2005: Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: A Tool for Development Organizations. Tearfund, London, 20 pp.
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Laaidi, K., M. Pascal, M. Ledrans, A. Le Tertre, S. Medina, C. Caserio, J.C. Cohen, J. Manach, P. Beaudeau, and P. Empereue-Bissonet, 2004: Le système français d’alerte canicule et santé (SACS 2004): Un dispositif intégéré au Plan National Canicule (The French Heatwave Warning System and Health: A System Integrated into the National Heatwave Plan). Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France.
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Laczko, F. and C. Aghazarm (eds.), 2009: Migration, environment and climate change: Assessing the evidence. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva, Switzerland.
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Landry, C.E., O. Bin, P. Hindsley, J.C. Whitehead, and K. Wilson, 2007: Going Home: Evacuation-Migration decisions of Hurricane Katrina Survivors. Center for Natural Hazards Research Working Paper, Center for Natural Hazards Research.
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Larsen, P., S. Goldsmith, O. Smith, M. Wilson, K. Strzepek, P. Chinowsky, and B. Saylor, 2007: Estimating Future Costs for Alaska Public Infrastructure at Risk from Climate Change. Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, 108 pp.
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Lavell, A. (ed.), 1994: Viviendo en riesgo: comunidades vulnerables y prevención de desastres en América Latina. LA RED, Tercer Mundo Editores, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Lavell, A. and C. Lavell, 2009: Local Disaster Risk Reduction Lessons from the Andes. Series: Significant Local Development Initiatives in the Face of Disaster Risk. General Secretariat of the Andean Community, Lima, Peru.
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Lavell, A. and E. Franco, 1996: Estado, sociedad y gestiãn de loes desastres en america latina: en busqueda del paradigma perdido. La Red, Bogota, Colombia.
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Lavell, A., 1996: Degradación ambiental, riesgo y desastre urbano. Problemas y conceptos: hacia la definición de una agenda de investigación. In: Ciudades en Riesgo [Fernandez, M.A. (ed.)]. La RED-USAID, Lima, Peru, pp. 21-59.
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Lavell, A., 1999: Environmental degradation, risks and urban disasters. issues and concepts: Towards the definition of a research agenda. In: Cities at Risk: Environmental Degradation, Urban Risks and Disasters in Latin America [Fernandez, M.A. (ed.)]. A/H Editorial, La RED, US AID, Quito, Ecuador, pp. 19-58.
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Lavell, A., 1999: Natural and Technological Disasters: Capacity Building and Human Resource Development for Disaster Management. Concept Paper commissioned by Emergency Response Division, United Nations Development Program, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Lavell, A., 2002: Riesgo y Territorio: los niveles de intervención en la Gestión del Riesgo (Risk and Territory: Levels of Intervention and Risk Management). Anuario Social y Político de América Latina y el Caribe. FLACSO-Nueva Sociedad, Latin American School of Social Sciences.
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Lavell, A., 2003: Local level risk management: Concept and practices. CEPREDENAC-UNDP. Quito, Ecuador.
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Lavell, A., 2009: Technical Study in Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management in Development Planning and Policy. Study undertaken for the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC.
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Lavell, A., 2009: Unpacking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management: Searching for the Links and Differences: A Conceptual and Epistemological Critique and Proposal. FLACSO, Bogota, Colombia.
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Lavell, A., 2010: Unpacking Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management: Searching for the Links and the Differences: A Conceptual and Epistemological Critique and Proposal. IUCN-FLACSO, International Union for Conservation of Nature - Latin American School of Social Sciences.
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Lawrimore, J., R. Heim, T. Owen, M. Svoboda, V. Davydova, D. Chobanik, R. Rippey, and D. Lecomte, 2007: The North American drought monitor and a global drought early warning system. In: The Full Picture. Group on Earth Observations, Tudor Rose, London, UK, pp. 142-144.
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Leake, J., J. Wolf, J. Lowe, P. Stansby, G. Jacoub, R. Nicholls, M. Mokrech, S. Nicholson-Cole, M. Walkden, A. Watkinson, and S. Hanson, 2007: Predicted wave climate for the UK: towards an integrated model of coastal impacts of climate change. In: Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Congress 2007 [Spaulding, M. (ed.)]. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Congress 2007, Newport, Rhode Island, 5-7 Nov 2007, American Society of Civil Engineers, pp 393-406.
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Lee, W.-J., R.A. Pielke Jr., and L. Anderson-Berry, 2006: Disaster mitigation, warning systems and societal impact. Rapporteur Report. In: Sixth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones, San José, Costa Rica, 21-30 Nov 2006, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland, severe.worldweather.org/iwtc/document/Topic_5_M_C_Wong.pdf.
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Lemmen, D., F. Warren, J. Laeroix, and E. Bush (eds.), 2008: From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Division, Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 448 pp.
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Lenton, T., A. Footitt, and A. Dlugolecki, 2009: Major Tipping Points in the Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector. World Wildlife Fund for Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Allianz SE, Munich, Germany, 89 pp.
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