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
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...
C3D+
SEI Oxford and CSAG have been working on the development of two complementary web-based portals designed to support decision-making for climate change adaptation..
Participatory multi-level vulnerability assessment in northern Mali
Participatory multi-level vulnerability assessment in northern Mali
Cooperative business
This case study describes how Midcounties Cooperative worked with UKCIP to plan how to adapt to climate change using the methodology outlined in the UKCIP Adaptation Wizard.
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.
ADx Methods
Forecasting, scenarios, and hope (Postma, Liebl 2005 p. 166)
Decision making models can be categorised by many dimensions such as qualitative-quantitative,...
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...
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.
ORCHID
Opportunities and Risks of Climate Change and Disasters (ORCHID)
Developed by IDS, this tool is designed to be a light touch screening process for donors, development organisations and...
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.
Mapping vulnerability
Translating indicators of vulnerability for specific exposure units/stresses (e.g populations at risk of drought) into vulnerability maps, and then defining hotspots and indicators of...
Lessons learned in the field: thinking about the content for risk communication
'Awareness was necessary before implementing any adaptive measures, as there was a general lack of information on climate risk in the community', Nepal ACCCA Pilot Action.
Learned lessons...
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