Resilience
In seeking to situate the vulnerability of local communities in Lesotho within the wider framing of dynamic vulnerability and adaptive management theory, we have conducted an analysis of local...
An introduction to adaptation
Welcome!
This page brings together some of the basic information that you should know about adaptation, the way the weADAPT group sees adaptation, and pointers to further information!
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Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)
This article provides an overview of the first phase of the Netherlands Climate Change Studies Assistance Programme and links to the project reports from the 13 counties covered under the scheme.
Anticipatory Learning for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
Learning to graph climate data from local monitoring
(Funding: National Science Foundation - Decision-Making, Risk, and Uncertainty, #0826941)
We hypothesize...
Methodology of Colombia NCAP Project
This article describes the methodological framework used in the Colombia NCAP project.
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...
Lessons learned from Tanzania NCAP Project
When considering adaptation options it is important to differentiate between genuine adaptive measures and an expansion in coping mechanisms that are already prevalent. Following Adger...
Lessons learned from Mozambique NCAP Project
Discussion and Conclusions
The majority of the people within all the study areas are vulnerable to a range of climate risks. Chronic poverty erodes the resilience of communities to external...
Key findings from Tanzania NCAP Project
A great deal of information was gained through the Tanzania NCAP programme. Detailed results from the two different programmes are given below:
Results from Rufiji
Results from...
Dynamic vulnerability
Lesotho landscape (photo: Sukaina Bharwani)
Vulnerability is a complex and by definition it encompasses many attributes or multiple stresses (social, economic,...
Biodiversity
Restoration work in Bishop Wood - Identified priority target in local biodiversity planning, coupled with a need to alleviate flooding to Selby Dam
Restoration of...
Communication
Gloucestershire is a rural county with a dispersed population and a higher than average proportion of people aged 50+. Desire for forward planning for emergencies, coupled with...
Floods
The village of Hoveringham is already vulnerable to flooding, and flood alleviation work upstream has increased future threat. Villagers had been told there was little hope of flood...
Adaptation tools, Case study: ORCHID DFID India
ORCHID is a risk management approach to portfolio screening that stresses both the risks and opportunities of climate change. It identifies how climate change...
Adaptation tools, Case study: PACT
PACT is applied to help companies assess their strategic exposure to climate change, analyze their resilience or vulnerable, and identify possible projects which offer win-win outcomes.
Adaptation Fund: Enhancing resilient agriculture
Photo: TerraCircle projects
Project background and contextTraditional agricultural practices that communities rely on in the Solomon Islands have been placed under...
Land degradation
UNDP, through its Community-Based Adaptation Programme (CBA), is assisting communities in Niger to respond to climate change and combat land degradation. The 5-year, programme is working to...
Response to impacts of glacial retreats
The project will support five pilot activities in Peru in response to the impacts of the rapid glacial retreat of the tropical Andes. Glacial melt and retreat pose significant threats to water...
Increasing resilience
Engagement of vulnerable communities in decision making processes on climate related adaptation strategies
ActivitiesBy strengthening the capacity of vulnerable...
Adaptation Rufiji Valley
As part of the NCAP project, resilience and vulnerability in the Rufiji valley of Tanzania are assessed in relation to locally defined poverty indicators and are heavily determined by the...
Water Scarcity
The main goal of the Yemen NCAP project was to mainstream priority adaptation activities that would build resilience against increasing water scarcity among vulnerable communities, sectors...
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