CSAG Climate Frontiers Podcast Series
Listen to this series of podcasts hosted by the Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG) at the University of Cape Town. These are conversations between researchers and partners across Africa and globally, covering a range of topics from climate science to social science and philosophy.
Should resilience-building projects (always) be socially acceptable?
This paper asks "What makes humanitarian and development projects socially acceptable?" It combines various sources to gain insight into people’s lived experiences of (trying) to build resilience.
International Environment Forum
International Environment Forum (IEF) is a Bahá'í-inspired non-governmental professional organization linking science and ethics to the challenges of the environ
An agenda for risk-informed decision-making
Summary
More frequent and intense climate extremes are expected as the climate changes; this, combined with changing patterns of exposure and vulnerability, is creating new geographic...
ECR: Flood Management
In combination with sea level rise (and coastal erosion), changing rainfall patterns, including events of higher rainfall intensity, could contribute to an increased risk of...
Urban Health Risks
We explored whether the health risks related to air pollution and temperature extremes are spatially and socioeconomically differentiated within three Latin American cities: Bogota,...
Mainstreaming Climate and Disaster Risk Management
This project provides assistance to the Government of Madagascar and key stakeholders to mainstream hazard risk management into key economic and social sectors, with special focus on...
Socio-economic indicators of vulnerability to climate hazards in Nepal
This work on socio-economic indices was supporting research for the larger ACCCA project managed by UNITAR, which aimed to increase capacity to adapt to climate change in Nepal.
Framing climate change adaptation in policy and practice
Understanding current and future climate change impacts, and how best to respond, are major challenges for Australian communities. Decision-makers need to consider the range of potential...
Participatory multi-level vulnerability assessment in northern Mali
Participatory multi-level vulnerability assessment in northern Mali
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...
Nepal Vulnerability Assessment
The process begins with vulnerability exposure analysis. This links to a participatory exercise on defining scenarios of the reference vulnerability (changes in exposure unit), climatic stresses...
Involving Stakeholders
Stakeholder participation can be used to democratise science and empower citizens, to inform policy making and to advise decision-making processes.
Case studies goals
This page contains links to case studies used in ORCHID, CRiSTAL and NAIADE.
ORCHID
IDS's screening tool for addressing unmanaged risks of development programmes and their adaptation components.
CRiSTAL
CRiSTAL is a project-planning tool that helps users design activities that support climate adaptation (i.e.,adaptation to climate variability and change) at the community level.
UKCIP BACLIAT
UKCIP's BACLIAT climate change risk and vulnerability assessment for corporate or other business operations such as SMEs.
Women's Environment and Development Organisation
As a global women’s advocacy organization, WEDO envisions a just world that promotes and protects human rights, gender equality and the integrity of the environment.
Step 4: Analyzing the Impacts of Climate Change
Climate related stresses can cause major adverse impacts on several sectors, including food production and agriculture, human health, and water availability, quality and accessibility, among...
Content of the communication: risk
We now need to give some thought to the content of the messages about climate risks that we wish to communicate. This is where we face the challenge of conveying meaning between people with...
Risk communication in the context of climate change
This set of articles review the fundamental concepts of risk communication and principles of communicating effectively, both in terms of the process and the content.
ACCCA experiences: implications of risk communication strategies for adaptation decisions
The risk communication strategies implemented in the ACCCA project produced rewarding effects on several levels in that community concerns were given voice through multi-stakeholder dialogues...
ACCCA experiences: Risk communication, social learning and storyboard exercise
Lessons learned from ACCCA (Advancing Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation) workshop in Cape Town.
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