Frameworks for Decision-Making
Frameworks on adaptation, as used by intergovernmental organisations, international agencies, and a connected research community. This topic looks at decision-related concepts including risk and uncertainty, iterative risk management, and adaptation pathways and their application.
Adaptation rationales and benefits: A foundation for understanding adaptation impact
Explore a newly proposed typology of adaptation benefits that aims to facilitate the construction of meaningful, transparent adaptation rationales; that is, the logic of an adaptation action. Discover how these can be applied in practice, using hypothetical and real-world examples of projects.
Decision Making Options for Managing Risk – Frequently Asked Questions from Chapter 17 of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report
How do we know whether adaptation is successful? Which guidelines, instruments and resources are available for decision-makers to recognize climate risks and decide on the best course of action? Learn about these and other frequently asked questions from Chapter 17 of the 6th Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group 2: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.
Interrogating ‘Effectiveness’ in Climate Change Adaptation: 11 Guiding Principles for Adaptation Research and Practice
What does adaptation look like and how can it be enabled? Learn more in this review which distills its findings into eleven guiding principles of effective adaptation.
A Critical Exploration of Adaptation Heuristics
Explore the validity and relevance of heuristics (rules of thumb used for decision-making) used by climate change adaptation practitioners.
Adaptation metrics: Perspectives on measuring, aggregating and comparing adaptation results
Climate adaptation initiatives are more important than ever, and globally more and more funds are invested in climate resilience. But how do we measure success? Find out in this UNEP DTU report.
Mitigation and Adaptation in the UNFCCC Debates
Tracking the topical shifts in the UNFCCC’s discussions between 1995 and 2013
Planning for an uncertain future: promoting adaptation to climate change through Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making
This report describes ‘flexible and forward-looking decision making’ (FFDM), a decision making approach that is able to adapt to the unexpected.
New approaches to promoting Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making: Insights from complexity science, climate change adaptation and ‘serious gaming’
Drawing on insights from complexity science, this paper describes what processes are needed to promote Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM).
Protecting Health from Climate Change: A Seven Country Initiative
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Synthesis Report of the Second Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum – Mainstreaming Adaptation in Development: Adaptation in Action
The Second Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum brought together more than 800 policymakers, scientists, donors, youths and representatives of Asian and Pacific countries. The Forum was organized by the Adaptation Knowledge Platform (AKP) and the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) along with several other partners.