Building resilience to climate risks through social protection: from individualised models to systemic transformation.

© 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12339This article analyses the role of social protection programmes in contributing to people's resilience to climate risks. Drawing from desk-based and empirical studies in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, it finds that social transfers make a strong contribution to the capacity of individuals and households to absorb the negative impacts of climate-related shocks and stresses. They do so through the provision of reliable, national social safety net systems-even when these are not specifically designed to address climate risks. Social protection can also increase the anticipatory capacity of national disaster response systems through scalability mechanisms, or pre-emptively through linkages to early action and early warning mechanisms. Critical knowledge gaps remain in terms of programmes' contributions to the adaptive capacity required for long-term resilience. The findings offer insights beyond social protection on the importance of robust, national administrative systems as a key foundation to support people's resilience to climate risks.Published versio

A Selection of Aesop's Fables Printed in the Learners' Style of Sloan-Duployan Phonography

This is a simple pamphlet of 26 pages and two pages of advertisements. 4⅞" x 7¼". After the title-page, there is a blank, and then the fables start and run continuously -- English title and shorthand fable -- through page 26. There is a curious reference to a "Key to Fables, price 3d" on the title-page. The firm has offices in Newfoundland and Melbourne as well as London. This pamphlet takes its place with the booklets we already have from both the Gregg and Pitman approaches to stenographic shorthand. My, it is already in its fifth edition!Fifth EditionShorthand "Transfers written by William Lawso