Social vulnerability
How can development partners support food security in protracted crises?
This policy brief summarises insights from recent SPARC research on how to bolster food security in countries affected by conflict and protracted crises.
Locally Led Planning: A Guide for Building Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements
Discover resources for locally-led, inclusive, multisectoral upgrading for climate resilience in urban informal settlements in this guide. It aims to support a range of stakeholders to both build climate resilience in informal settlements and link locally led action with broader processes of urban and climate governance.
Human Face of Climate Change: From Risk to Resilience in Indian Cities
Learn about the human impacts of climate change on three Indian cities: Agra, Delhi, and Panaji. What are the risks that climate change poses? How are inhabitants of these cities coping? And what adaptation solutions can we put in place to improve resilience and benefit local communities?
Bottom-Up Adaptive Decision-Support for Resilient Urban Water Security: Lusaka Case Study
This research applies the Decision-Scaling (DS) method as an adaptation framework for decision support, by evaluating system vulnerabilities at both the city- and region- scale for resilient urban water security in Lusaka.
The strategic importance of building flood resilience in the Greater Dakar Region
Floods deepen the vulnerability of communities that are already exposed to climate hazards in the Greater Dakar region in Senegal. Read the report to find out more.
CARE Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook: Second Edition
The CVCA helps gather and analyze information on community-level vulnerabilities to climate change. This new edition integrates 10 years of learnings with a particular focus on gender and ecosystems.
Climate Risk Management Framework for India: Addressing Loss and Damage (L&D)
The CRM framework sets out a structured process to assess climate risks and develop various risk management measures at both national and state level.
Why gender matters in climate adaptation
Climate change does not affect all people equally. For adaptation to succeed, the social drivers of vulnerability have to be tackled head on.
Prepare Children to Deal with Disaster and Climate Impacts
Children’s knowledge in climate and disaster field is a necessity. A large number of child victims during disasters shows the urgency of capacity building for children in resilience.
Applying the IPCC 2014 framework for hazard-specific vulnerability assessment under climate change
This paper compares the framework of the IPCC AR4 (2007) to that outlined in IPCC AR5 (2014) and describes how the AR5 framework provides a more contextualised and operationalisable approach.