This short overview of climate change issues in Africa was written by Ben Smith and Anna Taylor as input to an Environment and Climate Change...
The founding organisations in the Centres for Climate Adaptation are: AWhere Inc.:A spatial information and visualisation company that provides...
Video from fieldwork in Ga-Selala, S. Africa Examples of adaptation in action Adapting to multiple stresses in Sekhukhune, South Africa Effective...
The Lyambai Vulnerability and Adaptation Project hosted a community and local decision makers workshop in Mongu, Zambia on 17-19 October 2007.
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...
SEI, as part of the weADAPT Group, coordinated the launch of a new climate change adaptation platform at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007.
Lawrence Flint is Coordinator of Research into Climate, Vulnerability and Adaptation at Environmental Development Action (ENDA), based in Dakar, Senegal.
Read the information on this page Climate science, projections and interpretation and follow the links there for additional resources.
ENDA is working with local partners, including the Barotse Royal Establishment and local NGO Barotseland.com, to identify and assess the effect...
Africa is considered highly vulnerable to climate change (FAO, 2004), largely because many socio-economic activities in Africa, particularly...
For a set of wiki articles reviewing the fundamental concepts of risk communication and principles of communicating effectively, both in terms...
Improving the use of seasonal climate forecasts in Lesotho Climate adaptation in the mountains of Lesotho Seasonal forecast use in South...
Context Part of the logic for choosing Zambia and particularly the Zambezi floodplain region of western Zambia, which will be the initial geographical...
Mongu is one seven districts in the Western Province of Zambia. It is the land of the Lozi or Barotse people. The Lozi people live on 30 kilometer wide Barotseland flood plain.
Translating indicators of vulnerability for specific exposure units/stresses (e.g populations at risk of drought) into vulnerability maps, and...
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Climatic variability poses significant repercussions for agricultural production., but its spatial and temporal manifestations are considerably varied.
Welcome to wikiADAPT... a space for sharing information, guidance and experience on assessing and communicating risk and adapting to climate change in multi-stressor environments.
Adaptation databases(?) Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre http://www.climatecentre.org/ UNFCCC http://maindb.unfccc.
As part of its Climate, Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategic Plan, ENDA is developing a network of pilot action projects across different ecosystems...
In this context, the overall objective of the workshop was to provide a venue for hands-on work and guidance on the analysis and interpretation...
Gender aspects of climate change, IUCN et al report [1] Climate Change and Disaster Mitigation: Gender makes the difference, IUCN briefing note by Aguilar, L.
This page is meant to act as an entry point into the wiki to draw together information that will be useful to staff at Sida's Helpdesk for Environmental...