Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management
The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) is a joint initiative of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Germany in respon
The New Frontier of Adaptive Finance for Disaster Recovery
This report asks how financial institutions can adapt their offerings to rebuild healthy markets after shock events and explores the use of adaptive finance for supporting post-disaster recovery.
Transformational adaptation
A summary of themes from the literature and workshop discussions on the concept of transformation, how it might be applied and priorities for future research and practice.
Loch Leven Nature Reserve
Actions to increase adaptive capacity to changing rainfall patterns in the Loch Leven Nature Reserve
Adaptation planning approaches
Adapt or perish: A review of planning approaches for adaptation under deep uncertainty
MEDIATION Method Overview
This review has covered a range of traditional and new decision support methods. It has analysed the strengths and weakness of these approaches and their relevance for adaptation.
PACC Fiji: Vital Food
Climate change in Fiji is causing a large increase in the incidence and intensity of extreme rainfall -- the ensuing floodwaters are simply overwhelming the current...
PACC Vanuatu: Vital Roads
Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project is working in 14 Pacific Island countries to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to the adverse effects of climate change. The...
Stakeholder engagement
The process of stakeholder engagement and creating dialogue aims to generate a concrete understanding that empowers, builds capacity and facilitates different modes of learning.
Joining the dots- learning to work collaboratively to address climate change
Climate change introduces new complexities and uncertainties into decision-making and planning. It also compounds pressing challenges posed by...
ACCC: Water
This Adapting to Climate Change in China research policy project shows how the latest climate modelling can be linked with impact assessment and decision-making across the water sector.
The State of Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Lakes Region
Figure 1. Map of the Great Lakes basin, depicting lakes, rivers, and streams in the region (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Detroit District; retrieved from http://gis.glin....
Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, Reflection & Learning (PMERL)
The PMERL Manual can help measure, monitor and evaluate changes in local adaptive capacity within vulnerable communities for better decision-making on community-based adaptation.
Stakeholder network mapping and adaptive capacity
Stakeholder network mapping can be a valuable pre-cursor to utilising frameworks for building adaptive capacity.
Working co-operatively and collaboratively within a network of organisations...
Adaptive management
Flood pulse management cycle that will shift with climate change and fishing efforts.
Adaptation challengeCreation of fishing agreements in managed lakes and...
Adaptive Management and Learning Processes
Ojha et al, (2004) propose that adaptive management requires that there is learning through experience in a more conscious way, specifically by incorporating explicit learning into management...
Case studies goals
ORCHID: Mainstreaming Adaptation In Development Investments In the Water Sector In China
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ORCHID is designed to be a light touch...
Goals
Some tools are used to achieve a particular goal. In this section, the tools have been classified according to three goals.
Module: Adaptation planning
This module aims at building understanding on robust decision making to deal with uncertainty. It also includes approaches and different methods that could be used for adaptation screening. It has...
Sub-Module 3.2 - Learning by example
There are several different modes of learning which would be grouped under the umbrella theme of learning by example, and these are suited to different types of decision making. The table below,...
Short course training: Robust decision making and uncertainty
A short course training module on robust decision making and uncertainty.
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