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How should Tajikistan adapt to ongoing
and future climate change, in particular given the many
pressing development challenges it currently faces? The
paper argues that for developing countries like Tajikistan,
faster economic and social development is the best possible
defense against climate change. It presents some key
findings from a recent nationally representative household
survey to illustrate the strong public support for more
climate change related spending on better management of
water resources, disaster management, agriculture, and
public health--four key sectors that the government's
latest poverty reduction strategy identifies as being
especially important from a climate change perspective.
Finally, the paper argues that, as important as
project-based adaptation measures may be, it is imperative
that they be supported by an overall policy framework that
provides a truly enabling environment to facilitate faster
climate change adaptation.
