Assessing current social vulnerability to climate change
This paper describes a participatory methodology used to assess the current vulnerability of local communities in the Congo Basin. Vulnerability has been studied...
Integrating climate change concerns into disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur, India
Image courtesy iStock © Gawrav Sinha
Summary of Adaptation ChallengeGorakhpur District is recognised as one of the most flood-prone districts in Eastern Uttar...
Vulnerability assessment of livelihoods in Lower Mekong Basin
Strategies into Policies at District level in India
Summary
This project aimed to develop and validate risk communication products to improve the understanding of all concerned stakeholders on scientific, social and policy issues...
Cameroon TNS Baseline- Temporal Reference
The time period considered for the current vulnerability analysis covers at least three decades. In several occasions, local perceptions were captured during focus group discussions or through...
Vulnerability indicators at the urban level
Vulnerability indicators are a valuable tool to identify vulnerable spots, guide the allocation of adaptation funding, communicate and raise awareness, and monitor the effectiveness of policies.
Tools and Methods for vulnerability
It is important to distinguish between tools aimed at climate impact assessments, for example crop models or water planning models, and methods designed specifically to collect local level...
Delivering Adaptation
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This experience is an innovative effort on the comprehension of the potential benefits of a risk management approach in the...
Guidance for assessing vulnerability
Guidance for assessing vulnerability and links to examples
Colombia Vulnerability Assessment 2
Mangrove ecosystems in Tumaco face major pressures that make them susceptible, diminishing their capacity to adapt to potential impacts caused by...
VA adaptation planning
Share VA info
If/when you and your colleagues have conducted a vulnerability assessment in the area(s) you are working, it would be great to share it with other weADAPT users, so that we can learn from and...
Vulnerability assessment
This module explores first a series of frameworks used to assess vulnerability, showing how the definition and interpretation of vulnerability has evolved over time. It also introduces the steps...
ADx Tool Compendium
This page lists a selection of tools documented in earlier projects and meetings, which are highly related to the concepts of climate change adaptation.
Expert meetings on Tools
The...
Dynamic vulnerability
Lesotho landscape (photo: Sukaina Bharwani)
Vulnerability is a complex and by definition it encompasses many attributes or multiple stresses (social, economic,...
Appendix A: Developing a livelihood-sensitivity matrix
This page shows how to develop a livelihood sensitivity matrix that can be used in several ways:
- To synthesize existing knowledge on climate vulnerability in a fairly rapid participatory...
Short course training: Vulnerability-exposure exercise
For this session participants of stream 1 and 2 were distributed into groups. Each group focused on a case study. The following countries were selected for the case studies:
...Short course training: Plenary discussion of vulnerability frameworks
Go to Vulnerability Frameworks to learn about the objectives and steps of this exercise, as well as the key issues that came out when we assessed each framework in the plenary discussion.
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Short course training: Introduction to the Climate Change Explorer
Note: The Climate Change Explorer has now been superceded by the CSAG Climate Information Portal (CIP). The principles are the same and CIP builds on extensive user feedback from use of the...
Short course training: Exploring decision-making analysis methods
In this session, we move from identifying baseline, current vulnerability, to combining this with options for adaptation, in a scenario-based context. That is, introducing a variety of plausible...
Multiple pathways
There have been many different experiences of NeWater Project partners in uncovering answers to our research questions. Depending on the goal, the context and the target audience there are...
Methodology of Colombia NCAP Project
This article describes the methodological framework used in the Colombia NCAP project.
ACCCA/ENDA Communities Tigray Project
Committee meeting in Kihen Tabia
Project DescriptionThis ACCCA project brings together poor communities in drought-hit regions of northern Ethiopia with technical...
