Decoding buzzwords at SB58: what is transformational adaptation?
What does the term 'transformational adaptation' truly mean and how can it shape our future? Dive in as we decode this critical concept from the Bonn Climate Conference, SB58.
IPCC FAQs - Decision Making Options for Managing Risk
How do we know whether adaptation is successful? Which guidelines, instruments and resources are available for decision-makers to recognize climate risks and decide on the best course of action? Learn about these and other frequently asked questions from Chapter 17 of the 6th Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group 2: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries
Based on a review of 34 interventions, this paper shows that adaptation interventions may reinforce, redistribute or create new vulnerability.
Transformative adaptation of rivers in an urban context (ecological infrastructure toolkit)
Ecological infrastructure plays an important role in the overall health of rivers. This toolkit supports users to design, plan, implement and finance ecological infrastructure.
Transformative adaptation in cities
A review of academic and grey literature addressing transformative adaptation, with a focus on cities, including two case studies, Durban in South Africa and Harare in Zimbabwe.
Transformative Riverine Management in Durban
With support from the C40 Cities Finance Facility, the eThekwini Municipality is building a case for investment in transformative, city-wide urban river management.
Unpacking Transformation: A framework and insights from adaptation mainstreaming
This paper puts forward a conceptual framework for determining the likelihood of an adaptation initiative delivering transformation.
Transformation in Adaptation
This ASSAR working paper highlights a range of activities that could be classified in different ways as embodying transformation, and reflects on some of their implications and complexities.
Transformational Adaptation: An Introduction
This introductory article provides a brief overview of the concept of transformational adaptation and relevant case studies for practitioners.
Adaptation mainstreaming and M&E training courses
This provides a description of Garama 3C short training courses on adaptation mainstreaming and M&E was offering.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Transformational adaptation
This policy brief looks at how cities can approach transformational adaptation through the implementation of fundamentally different approaches to preparing for, and responding to, climate risks.
Webinar: Adaptation Pathways
ASSAR, in collaboration with CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), organised a webinar on Adaptation Pathways on Friday 14 October 2016, available online here.
The 3As: Tracking Resilience
This paper presents an explanatory framework for measuring resilient outcomes that embraces and makes sense of the current diversity in resilience approaches.
The role of community-based natural resource management in climate change adaptation in Ethiopia
Describes the methodology developed to assess what role selected community-based/participatory natural resource management initiatives have in climate change adaptation.
Transformational adaptation
A summary of themes from the literature and workshop discussions on the concept of transformation, how it might be applied and priorities for future research and practice.
Post-Sandy coastal protection
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast of the United States of America, damaging or destroying an estimated 300,000 homes and claiming 60 lives in the coastal areas of the State of...
Emerald Network Ltd
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