Vulnerability Assessment of Jamaica's Transport Sector
The assessment sheds light on priority regions and specific vulnerabilities in Jamaica's transport sector, and offers guidance on how to climate-proof future and current investments.
Assessing climate vulnerability and risk in the Indian Himalayan region
This science brief provides a general guidance on conducting a climate risk assessment in the Indian Himalayan Region.
Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience – A Training Manual
This manual is part of the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience (UCCAR) training course and incorporates case studies, tools, methodologies, and guidelines.
Developing a Demonstration Site in Nepal on Community Forestry, Gender and Climate Change Adaptation
A framework for better understanding and assessing climate change vulnerabilities in a context of multiple competing interests in a community forestry landscape through a pilot site in Nepal.
Pacific Gender and Climate Change Toolkit
The Pacific Gender and Climate Change toolkit is designed to support climate change practitioners in the Pacific islands region to integrate gender into their programmes and projects.
Methods Applied to Integrated Climate Science and Local Knowledge
This comprehensive report demonstrates an integrative process for combining climate science and community knowledge to support climate change adaptation planning in the Lower Mekong Basin.
Opportunities for climate compatible coastal tourism – Lessons from Belize
In Belize, growth in the tourism sector is often accompanied by habitat degradation that directly threatens the resources upon which the industry depends.
National Plant Protection Centre
The National Plant Protection Centre (NPPC), under the Department of Agriculture, is the national referral centre for plant health management, and aims to be a premier national institution for exce
Key insights from ecosystem- and community-based adaptation practice
Climate adaptation planning requires an integrated approach that can address different local needs, priorities and knowledges while being contextualised to wider landscapes or ecosystems and scales.
Assessing Vulnerability in the Namakwa District
This study used statistical climate modeling to generate climate change scenarios for NDM. These feed a variety of recommendations for adaptation.
Vulnerability in Burundi
This case study describes an integrated vulnerability assessment undertaken on national and local scale in Burundi.
A closer look at the practices of vulnerability assessment and the priorities of adaptation funding
The burning issue in the climate change adaptation debate is arguably about funding: who should receive it, and why?
University of Washington
The University of Washington educates a diverse student body to become responsible global citizens and future leaders through a challenging learning environment informed by cutting-edge scholarship
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.
VA module e-learning
This module has been developed in response to the need for more guidance on vulnerability assesment, in particular for coastal areas, in Indonesia and the Philippines.
Flooding in the Sahel
The Senegalese municipality of Diamaguène Sicap-Mbao, located in an ecoregion characterized by a sequence of sand dunes and valleys (see Note 1 below) in the Sahel, is particularly...
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...
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...
Equatorial Guinea case study
Forests in Equatorial Guinea. Image © WRI
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...
Coastal Community Adaptation Project (C-CAP)
Pacific Island countries, some of which stand just a few metres above sea level, form one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. The nature-based...
Integrating climate change concerns into disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur, India
Image courtesy iStock © Gawrav Sinha
Summary of Adaptation ChallengeGorakhpur District is recognised as one of the most flood-prone districts in Eastern Uttar...
Impact on Pastures Kyrgyzstan
Map shows levels of vulnerability to climate change in Kyrgyzstan
SummaryThe Kyrgyz government with the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has designed a...
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