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Adaptation decision making

1. Checklist - could use indicators, criteria and considerations. Eg. Adaptation planning framework (APF) 2. Multi-criteria - Evaluating options...

Adaptation signatures

1 Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way One approach to understanding climate...

Adaptation Targets

Back to: Sub-Module 1.2 - Institutional policy matrix Adaptation to climate change is not only multidimensional, encompassing various impacts,...

Adaptation to climate change seen from a southern NGO perspective

By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM ENDA is one of the few truly international African NGOs whose constituency comprises African populations in urban...

Adaptation wheel

This article is a stub (short article) - please help us by expanding it. List of all stubs Adaptation as a social process: spinning wheels? A...

Adding locational specificity to the Tanzania NAPA document

As part of the support to the NAPA process we translated indicators of vulnerability for specific exposure units/stresses (e.

An introduction to adaptation

We see adaptation a process of socio-institutional learning relevant for specific contexts, and producing adaptation outcomes and processes...

Appendix A: Developing a livelihood-sensitivity matrix

This annex presents an example of a livelihood sensitivity matrix that can be used in several ways: To synthesize existing knowledge on climate...

Are climate change considerations relevant to my activities?

See the Navigation Guide for an overview of these resources! Ideas and Guidance : Who are vulnerable and Why? Livelihood Sensitivity...

AWhere Spatial Information Systems

The AWhere SIS product provides a user-friendly platform to support vulnerability assessment, risk mapping and planning climate adaptation.

Bolivia NCAP Project

This project was carried out under the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)] which was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign...

Bridging methods

This article is a stub (short article) - please help us by expanding it. List of all stubs These are methods that move from the realm of exploratory,...

Business and Adaptation

Some thoughts on my impending PhD study: Environmental change has always affected civilizations and hence business . The rate of climate change...

Circe foundation paper

This interactive user guide is being developed to produce CIRCE project deliverable D13.2.1 Foundatation paper on adaptation options and screening.

Climate adaptation in southern Africa: Addressing the needs of vulnerable communities

Video from fieldwork in Ga-Selala, S. Africa Examples of adaptation in action Adapting to multiple stresses in Sekhukhune, South Africa Effective...

Climate and Migration

Climate impacts upon migration processes in complex ways and it has proven problematic to isolate one particular climate stressor as the cause of migration.

Colombia NCAP Project

This project was carried out under the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)] which was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign...

Communication Tools

Because adaptation is viewed as a process of social learning, developing appropriate communication tools that allow stakeholders to build consensus...

Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) projects

1 Purpose of this guide: 2 This guide is designed specifically for: 3 Concepts and context 4 Process 5 Prototype projects 6 Links 7 Next steps...

Conceptualising adaptation

By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM, Dakar, Senegal Sen (1999) defines development as the creation of choice and lack of development as having no choice or no say in what happens.

Decision Climate Envelopes

Facing the uncertainty inherent in making a decision about a future which is not entirely known or understood will require specific consideration...

Defining the policy decision framework

It is likely to be a participatory module that will coach people through questions related to: 1) the aim of climate adaptation? (e.

EGS4032 Entry Page

This site will be developed by the 2009 students, who are encouraged to add links to relevant material, upload summaries of papers read in class...

Institute for the Popularization and Application of Science, Burkina Faso

IAVS offers courses in the field of climate change which include: A Masters in the management and economics of climate change; A short course...

Introduction

In order to assess how climate change might impact certain livelihood groups, it is necessary to establish the degree and range of exposures...

John Handmer

Areas of Expertise: Public policy issues in risk and community safety; Emergency planning and management; Community resilience; The interface...

Join the Dialogue

1 Audience 2 Purpose of the guide 3 Links to pages 4 Next steps Great... so you are someone who works with climate data to generate new...

Kai Kim Chiang

Kai Kim is a Research Fellow and is associated with the Risk, Vulnerability and Livelihood programme at SEI. Her current responsibilities within...

Key findings from Bolivia NCAP Project

Follow this link for findings from the Bolivia NCAP project on the vulnerability of systems of production and human health around Lake Titicaca and perceptions of risk and change.

Key findings from Colombia NCAP Project

The Colombian coastal area is highly vulnerable to sea-level rise (SLR). However, the impacts of SLR may differ between the Caribbean and Pacific...

Lawrence Flint

Lawrence Flint is Coordinator of Research into Climate, Vulnerability and Adaptation at Environmental Development Action (ENDA), based in Dakar, Senegal.

Lessons learned from Bolivia NCAP Project

Standardize the applied methodologies. Establish a database to be used as a reference and baseline in the evaluation of the bio-climatic processes...

Lessons learned from Colombia NCAP Project

Long-term planning is essential To adapt effectively to SLR and other climate change effects planning needs to start at least 10 to 30 years ahead of time.

Lessons learned from Ghana NCAP Project

Ample evidence is now available that climate variability and climate change are having profound effects on socioeconomic development and the...

NeWater Project

Specification of mechanisms and tools for multi-stakeholder dialogue processes on poverty and gender in river basin planning - Nilufar Matin Guadiana Basin

Objective

This guidance sheet provides an approach to identify the key climatic hazards for a specific region and livelihood or economic activity.

Overview

Adaptation to climate variability and change is a social process. It requires us to assess and respond to past climatic impacts, to increase...

Overview of major climate adaptation intitiatives and networks

This table was part of the background material SEI Oxford prepared for the UNEP international consultation meeting on the development of the...

Oxfam Entry Page

Read the information on this page Climate science, projections and interpretation and follow the links there for additional resources.

START-Oceania Secretariat

Small island states, such as those found in the region of Oceania, have a number of features that serve to increase their vulnerability to impacts...

Adaptation Decision Explorer

Adaptation to climate change requires understanding of social processes. It means that we need to assess and respond to past climatic impacts,...

Video: Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) in the Everest region

Glacial lake outburst floods result as glacier melt raises the level of glacial lakes and causes them to breach the moraine wall which acts a s adam.

Livelihoods Under Climate Variability and Change: An Analysis of the Adaptive Capacity of Rural Poor to Water Scarcity in Kenya’s Drylands

In dryland communities droughts are a significant cause of decreased crop production and herd size to less than the minimum required for subsistence.

SEI Oxford Office

The SEI Oxford centre focuses on adaptive resource management, particularly related to climatic risks, with expertise in water, food security and livelihoods.

Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change

This project is concerned with enhancing food security in the context of the modification of floodplain functionality as a result of hydrological...

Building capacity to adapt to climate variability, extreme climatic events and climate change in urban and peri-urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The ACCCA project in Ougadougou is looking at adaptation in urban and peri-urban areas. Climate change has the potential to destroy the socio-economic...

Participatory Climate Risk Assessment and Development of Local Adaptation Action Plans

This project aims to develop a community-driven adaptation plan of action, as well as to facilitate the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation...

Climate vulnerability and adaptation in the Upper Zambezi Valley – ‘Lyambai Vulnerability and Adaptation’ (LYVA) project

ENDA is working with local partners, including the Barotse Royal Establishment and local NGO Barotseland.com, to identify and assess the effect...

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