Adaptive Capacity: An Introduction
This article introduces the concept of adaptative capacity, including definitions. It provides some case examples to illustrate the concept and links to further reading and resources.
Resilience: An Introduction
This article provides a brief overview of and introduction to the concept of resilience, and links to further reading and examples.
Urban resilience and everyday risk
African cities face unique challenges and climate change threats. This paper analyzes how resiliency can be made applicable to urban African contexts.
Climate-Resilient Water Management: An operational framework from South Asia
The paper presents a conceptual framework for Climate-Resilient Water Management (CRWM) and provides examples of CRWM interventions developed and deployed by the ACT programme across SE Asia.
Safeguarding livelihoods and promoting resilience through National Adaptation Plans– Case study: Kenya
This country case study on Kenya is one in a series that describes the steps taken to formulate and implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).
Safeguarding livelihoods and promoting resilience through National Adaptation Plans in Uruguay
This country case study on Uruguay is one in a series that describes the steps taken to formulate and implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).
Resilience Scan: July-September 2017
This Resilience Scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter of 2017.
BRACED Resilience Exchange
The Resilience Exchange is a flagship report exploring what the Building resilience and adaptation to climate extremes and disasters programme (BRACED) programme has learned after two years.
Sniffer
Sniffer is a registered charity delivering knowledge-based solutions to resilience and sustainability issues in Scotland.
Arctic Resilience Report 2016
This report is the culmination of a 5-year effort to better understand Arctic change, including critical tipping points, factors that support resilience and choices that strengthen adaptive capacity
LAO PDR: Consolidated Livelihood Exercise for Analyzing Resilience (CLEAR)
This analysis, published jointly by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and WFP, examines the impact of climate risks on food security and livelihoods in Laos.
Inuit art to cope with socio-ecological change
Inuit artists of Cape Dorset have leveraged art as a way to communicate ecological change and traditional knowledge to local youth and global decision makers, effectively enhancing their resilience.
The changing role of NGOs in supporting climate services
This report examines the evolving role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the production, communication and uptake of climate information.
How gender and adaptive capacity affect resilience
Policy and programme recommendations on gender dynamics and the role of CBA in increasing adaptive capacity and promoting gender equality based on ALP’s practical experiences in Africa since 2010.
Yachaykusun: Lessons on climate change from the Andes
Adaptation and resilience in Vanuatu
This report documents findings from fieldwork aimed at contextualizing the resilience-building work of the Vanuatu NGO Climate Change Adaptation Program and linking it to the academic literature.
Adaptation and resilience in Vanuatu
This report documents findings from fieldwork aimed at contextualizing the resilience-building work of the Vanuatu NGO Climate Change Adaptation Program and linking it to the academic literature.
Climate Change’s Role in Disaster Risk Reduction’s Future
This article uses vulnerability and resilience to explore the intersections and overlaps amongst climate change, disaster risk reduction, and sustainability.
Gender and Resilience
Individual, household and community resilience to climate extremes and disasters depend on the local context and the extent to which agencies address existing social dynamics and power relations.
Learning from farmers
This paper underscores how measures to increase climate change resilience must view food, energy, water and waste management systems as interconnected and mutually dependent.
Biocultural innovations to confront climate change
SIFOR is working to stem the loss of traditional knowledge and agricultural techniques by strengthening communities’ capacity to innovate through participatory action-research.
INTASAVE
The INTASAVE-CARIBSAVE Group is a global not-for-profit and environmental enterprise that innovates, connects and implements practical solutions for sustainable development and climate change.
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