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Definitions
- Antibiotic resistance
- Biodiversity
- Bird flu
- Climate change & insect-borne disease
- Desert science
- Indigenious Knowledge
- Malaria
- Reducing forest emissions
- Tropical cyclones
- Tuberculosis
Below is a directory of terms used in the debate about climate change and insect-borne disease. Most of the terms have been reproduced from the WHO, US Environment Protection Agency, the UN University Institute of Advanced Studies, the Center for International Forestry Research, and the Meridian Institute.
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world today. Long-term development planning must now include measures to deal with it.
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Adaptation
Adjustment of natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climate change, or its effects, that lessens damage or exploits beneficial opportunities.
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