Adaptation Decision Making tools

Submitted by Sabrina Lambat | published 5th Aug 2011 | last updated 21st Nov 2022

As well as exploring the conditions of applicability of different tools, it is important to consider the main goal of each tool before choosing it for your study.

Name	Assess climate risks & impacts	Assess social vulnerability	Screen, prioritise options	Learn more / build capacity
CRiSTAL (IISD ++)	X	X
ADAPT (World Bank)			X
Adaptation Wizard (UKCIP)		X		X
CVCA (CARE)				X
CEDRA (TEARFUND)	X		X
Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) (SEI)	X
Toolkit for Designing CC Adaptation Initiatives (UNDP)				X
CIP (CSAG)	X
Climate 1-Stop (USAID +)				X
weADAPT: Adaptation Layer (SEI)				X
weADAPT: Climate Adaptation Options Explorer (ADx) (SEI)			X
KnETs - Tools for Knowledge Elicitation		X
NAIADE			X
Agent-based modelling				X

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Compendium of Adaptation Decision Tools
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Adaptation decision tools and methods

Podcast: Computer models as a tool for sustainable water planning
Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice
Holistic Approach towards Climate Proofing of Infrastructure Investments
Climate Services for the Coastal Protection Infrastructure Sector in Vietnam
The Role of Climate Data in the Planning Processes in Germany
Evaluación de Riesgo de la Infraestructura ante el Cambio Climático
How to Interpret Climate Information for the Assessment of Climate Risks
Great Adaptations Podcast
Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self-Sufficiency and Systems Change
Improving the resilience of UK coastal communities
Climate Risk in Africa: Adaptation and Resilience
Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to support decision making on climate change adaptation
Research Methods for Understanding and Supporting Decision Processes in African Cities
Integrating dynamic adaptation behaviour in risk assessments
Unpacking Transformation: A framework and insights from adaptation mainstreaming
Managing uncertainty under multiple drivers and disruptors
‘Search and discovery’ tool for CCA and DRR
Moving through uncertainty, toward Research for Impact
Webinar: Exploring the use of foresight methods in climate resilience
Climate Change Adaptation Governance in British Columbia
Using local, indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation
Agent-based modelling: A tool for addressing policy issues
Envisioning robust climate change adaptation futures for coastal regions
Robust Decision Support
Mapping of social networks
Climate CaDD
City-scale decisions
Mediation Technical Briefing Notes
MEDIATION Choosing Salient Approaches and Methods for Adaptation
MEDIATION Adaptation Turning Points
MEDIATION Analytic Hierarchy Process
MEDIATION Multi Criteria Analysis
MEDIATION Portfolio Analysis
MEDIATION Social Network Analysis
MEDIATION Real Options Analysis
MEDIATION Robust Decision Making
MEDIATION Cost Effectiveness Analysis
MEDIATION Method Overview
PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change
Review of climate change adaptation tools and methods
System dynamics
Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping
Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit
Exploring the adaptive capacity of emergency management using agent based modelling
Coastal Hazard Wheel
ATK Adaptation Screening
ATK Assessing Climate Change Perceptions
ATK Current vulnerability Mapping
ATK Trend Analysis and Historical Disturbance Matrix
ATK Capacity Mapping
ATK Resource Mapping Tool
Adaptation Tool Kit- Navigation page
CDKN Climate and Development Research Review
A Discrete Choice Model of Household Preferences for Clean Cooking Alternatives
SNA review summary
SNA review
Heat related mortality in the UK
Social network characteristics
Forests and Climate Change Toolbox
Climate Safeguards System (CSS)
mDSS
AHP
MCA
Conditions of applicability
ADM Tools Guide
Tools
Adaptation Decision Making METHODS
Adaptation decision explorer
ADx Objectives
ADx User Guide
Robust Decision-Making
Analytical scope
Sectors
Goals
ADAM Digital Compendium
ORCHID
CRiSTAL
ESPACE
PACT
UKCIP Adpatation Wizard
SMCE-NAIADE
Bottom-up tools
Adaptation tools review
Voting and ranking exercises
KnETs
Designing Metrics for Adaptation
Circe foundation paper
Agent-based modelling
Actor-network mapping
XLRM framework
Outcome Mapping
NAIADE - Novel approach to imprecise assessment and decision environments
Elimination by aspect and rule based decision making
Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP)
Social Network Analysis
Social network mapping
Elimination by aspects
Data envelope decision analysis
Bayesian network

Adaptation Stories

Impact on Pastures Kyrgyzstan
Cross-Canada Checkup: A Canadian Perspective on Our Water Future

Frameworks for decision-making

IPCC FAQs - Decision Making Options for Managing Risk
Interrogating ‘Effectiveness’ in Climate Change Adaptation: 11 Guiding Principles for Adaptation Research and Practice
A Critical Exploration of Adaptation Heuristics
Adaptation metrics: Perspectives on measuring, aggregating and comparing adaptation results
Mitigation And Adaptation In The UNFCCC Debates
Planning for an uncertain future
New approaches to promoting flexible and forward looking decision making
ADM Definitions
Adaptation versus coping
Adaptation Metrics
Normative Agency
Decision uncertainty
Exploring decision-making options
Adaptation Targets

Projects or examples about decision-making

Climate Risk Analysis and Assessment Report for Cai Lon - Cai Be Sluice Gate Project
The Relationship between Climate Change Adaptation & Coastal Protection Planning in the Mekong Delta: the Role of Climate Services
Accelerating adaptation action in Africa - Insights from African experts
Are European decision-makers preparing for high-end climate change?
Gestion de l’eau dans le périmètre rizicole de la plaine de Douna
Why climate change adaptation support tools have difficulties reaching local policy‐makers
The Climate Innovation Window
Cocoa farmers plan for climate change
Climate Change Impacts on Livestock
Climate Adaptation In Bangladesh
Identifying Salient Drivers of Livelihood Decision-Making in the Forest Communities of Cameroon
Rios del Paramo al Valle
PARA-Agua - Quilca-Chili
PARA-Agua - Chira-Piura
PARA-Agua - Chinchina
US telecoms sector is vulnerable to climate change finds study
How can irrigated agriculture adapt to climate change
ACCRA game video
Understanding the decision making context
What are the best climate adaptation options for mixed crop and livestock farmers?
Adaptation to Climate Change Team
Floodplain Fencing Specification
Reducing poaching around Livestock feeding points
Sustainable Riverbank protection
Communicating water-related climate change risks to improve local adaptation in the Mekong delta (Vietnam)
Communicating water-related climate change risks to improve local adaptation in the Mekong delta (Thailand)
Deep uncertainty over long-term climate in infrastructure projects
DSTs for health
OxGAME project
WD-NACE Scenarios Kenya
CIRCLE 2- Adaptation Inspiration Book
ADx application in the Greater Banjul Area
WD-NACE EOP
Social network mapping in the Guadiana river basin, Spain
Beyond generic adaptive capacity
Shrimp Aquaculture in Bangladesh
Resource trends in Munshigonj
Satkhira Local workshop
Khulna Regional workshop
A Cognitive Approach to Global Climate Governance
A User-Centred Approach to Understanding Household Energy Decision-Making
ADx Greater Banjul Area
South Kenya Coast study sites
Bamburi beach agent-based model
Modelling workshop
Gazi mangrove restoration project
Gazi FLS
Knowledge brokers collaboration
Climate change impacts in the Rhine-Meuse Delta in the Netherlands
Forest fires and climate change
Heatwaves
Viticulture
ACT Energy Reports
Fruit growers
Network Rail
Adaptation in the cider industry
Whole Decision Network Analysis for Coastal Ecosystems
Mediation (Main Project Page)
Case studies analytical scope
Case studies sectors
Case studies goals
Sustainable drainage
Creating a resilient community refuge for flood events, UK
Communication
Property
Adaptation tools, Case study: ORCHID DFID India
Adaptation tools, Case study: SMCE/NAIADE, Water Sector, Troina, Italy
Adaptaton tools, Case study: CRiSTAL, Dodoma, Tanzania
Adaptation tools, Case study: ORCHID, Water Sector, China
Adaptation tools, Case study: ADAM, Guadiana
COBAM

Adaptation policies and planning

Exploring a decolonial perspective and methodology in climate change adaptation research
Mainstreaming CBA to upper levels
PACA - Community Adaptation Plans of Action
Long-term coastal adaptation in Australia
Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change
Elements of a frame of reference for evaluating adaptation to climate change
Barriers for long-term climate information use in decision-making
Local Adaptation Plans in Mozambique
Planning for the future and adapting to climate change in Ethiopia - Lessons from ACCRA
Planning for the future and adapting to climate change in Mozambique - Lessons from ACCRA
Planning for the future and adapting to climate change in Uganda
Climate Change and Extreme Weather: Designing Adaptation Policy: Background Report
Adaptation planning approaches
Local climate change adaptation planning

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