Mainstreaming adaptation in agriculture
Climate change creates widespread risks for food production. As climate impacts are often locally specific, it is imperative...
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...
COMPENDIUM OF LESSONS LEARNED FROM ARCC CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS
Before considering how to adapt to climate change, it is first necessary to understand the extent to which natural and human systems will be affected by various change...
PARA-Agua - Chira-Piura
The project Partnering for Adaptation and Resilience (PARA-Agua) or "For Water" recognizes that climate change is negatively impacting water resources, agriculture and ecosystems in the LAC region
FCFA Pilot: Rwanda
The Rwanda FCFA case study was undertaken by the Global Climate Adaptation Partnerships (GCAP), working with the UK Met Office and Atkins. The case study...
FCFA Pilot: Ghana
As a precursor to the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) research activities, CDKN, on behalf of DFID commissioned a series of case study activities with the purposes of...
Vulnerability Sourcebook
The Vulnerability Sourcebook is targeted at governmental and non-governmental organisations and aims to support their efforts to substantiate and enhance adaptation and development planning.
The Adaptation without Borders Index of exposure
Applying a new conceptual framework, SEI has developed the Adaptation without Borders Index of Exposure (or AwB Index, for short).
World Disasters Report
This year, the World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments
‘It used to rain continuously for about 15 days without stopping. This fantastic rain would leave all our lands, homesteads and crops completely saturated. But these continuous rains...
Delta Api Bali
Participatory mapping
Delta Api Bali is a collaborative participatory mapping project for climate change adaptation in Bali. Participatory mapping by villagers is a...
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings
The vast majority of work on gender and climate change adaptation treats gender as a simple either/or binary with men on one side and women on the other. This report, however, shows that...
Protecting coastal livelihoods in Thailand
School children learning about mangrove planting techniques. © Raks Thai Foundation / CARE
Protecting coastal livelihoods in ThailandIn heavily populated coastal...
CBA and resilience-building in Ethiopia
Beleta Hode has been involved in the GRAD programme for 10 months. “Since taking part in GRAD my family is healthier, I bring value to my household and I share my learning...
Community adaptation action planning in Niger
This project example outlines the participatory process through which community-based adaptation action planning (CAAP) was carried out with 20 pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in the...
Using Mobile Phones to Reduce the Adversities of Climate Change in Rural Nepal
The initiative aims to build resilience by improving the livelihood assets of vulnerable communities, and the work reported here focuses on the rural communities around South-Central Nepal.
Climate change adaptation and local resiliency in Sofala Province, Mozambique
University of Notre Dame researchers with one DRR committee
Project descriptionThis project (ongoing), supported by International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (...
PREFUS - Pathways of Resilience to Future Storms
The PREFUS project is co-led by Dr Jadu Dash and Dr Emma Tompkins at the University of Southampton, and Dr John Duncan is a full time researcher on the project. It is a...
Methods for Community Resilience
The paper links inter- and trans-disciplinary methodologies to map stakeholders’ knowledge and combine this with the best available data for disaster resilience planning.
Promoting Local Adaptive Capacity: Experiences from Africa and Asia
Using a local adaptive capacity framework as a starting point, this research paper analyses 7 case studies from across Africa and Asia that represent a range of different interventions.
Building with Nature Indonesia - reaching scale for coastal resilience
Building permeable structures. Photo by Nanang Sujana
Adaptation contextNorthern Java’s deltaic shorelines suffer from land subsidence and severe erosion, in...
COBAM Rwanda Vulnerability
Introducing more trees into the farmed landscape would assist the landscape in coping with climate change. Credit: Charlotte Pavageau
Project summaryA regional...
Current vulnerability in Rwanda
Volcanic Mountains Rwanda. Image ©Jack Swenson
Project backgroundBetween 2011 and 2012, a regional baseline assessment to analyse vulnerability was conducted in five...
Current vulnerability in Equatorial Guinea
Atom village (credit: Daniel Morchain)
Project summaryA regional baseline assessment to analyse vulnerability was conducted in five landscapes of the Congo Basin as...
Pages
