Identifying Salient Drivers of Livelihood Decision-Making in the Forest Communities of Cameroon
This paper describes a participatory and collaborative process for formalising qualitative data, using research from southeast Cameroon, how these results can provide input to an...
Understanding the decision making context
This presentation summarizes the survey and interview responses on decision-making and decision-support tools (DSTs) for health and environmental change in the context of the Healthy Futures project
Module: AHP
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ADx Greater Banjul Area
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ADx is a decision support tool to screen adaptation options. Users are able to access several methods to select the most appropriate...
mDSS
mDSS, part of the NetSyMoD approach for the assessment of and decision support for natural resources management, is an original software application, developed since circa. 2001, that...
AHP
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a type of multi-criteria assessment (MCA) technique for analyzing complex decisions. It was developed in the early 1980s to help decision-makers...
MCA
MCA is a well-known method (or more accurately, family of methods) for evaluation of alternatives according to multiple decision criteria.
ADM Tools Guide
This user guide will give you an introduction to the subject of adaptation decision-making tools. It is intended for the newcomer to this area. At the bottom of the page we...
Training
Adaptation Decision Making METHODS
This article aims to provide guidance on the best methods for decision screening, exploring many different decision making methods.
Involving Stakeholders
Stakeholder participation can be used to democratise science and empower citizens, to inform policy making and to advise decision-making processes.
ADx Design
Schematic diagram of ADx.
The schematic diagram explains the overall pictures of ADx. As shown in the diagram, the main components are namely:
Potential...
ADx Methods
Forecasting, scenarios, and hope (Postma, Liebl 2005 p. 166)
Decision making models can be categorised by many dimensions such as qualitative-quantitative,...
ADx Objectives
The potential users of the ADx will be analysts or engineers working for decision makers such as donor agencies or policy makers. The decision analysis cycle between a decision maker and decision...
CIRCE Foundation Paper Process
CIRCE Foundation Paper - part 3: Adaptation as a Socio-Instiutional Learning Process
ADx User Guide
The Climate Adaptation Options Explorer was conceived as a decision support tool to screen adaptation options and...
Robust Decision-Making
Under deep uncertainty, decision-makers need to select robust rather than best options. However, when the future is characterised by uncertainty, a focus on best options may carry significant risks.
Adaptation tools review
Several tools have been developed to support climate adaptation decision-making over the past decade. This pages offers a review of them.
SMCE-NAIADE
Novel approach to imprecise assessment and decision environments (NAIADE) / Social Multi−Criteria Evaluation process (SMCE) method
Naiade is a multi-criteria assessment (MCA) method able...
Bottom-up tools
Using a series of criteria of analysis, this review aims at assessing the conditions of applicability of tools that support adaptation decision-making using a bottom-up approach.
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...
Decision Analysis (Decision-Screening)
Climate adaptation is about making decisions. It is not our role to tell people what the outcome of climate change will be in 20 years as it is not knowable - there is too much...
Bottom up synthesis approach
To explore decision making options, we have to identify adaptation options. Some options may be gathered from experience such as project reports and conversations with other decision makers, or...
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