Climate Change Adaptation in Tanzania's Coastal Villages
The Pwani (coast in kiswahili) Project builds on more than a decade of previous experience and investments of the U.S. Agency...
Yemen Sana'a Basin
The Sana'a Basin is located in the Central Highlands of Yemen and includes the capital city of Sana'a. At an elevation ranging from 2,000 to 2,200m ASL, the basin is characterized...
Yemen Sadah Basin
An intermountain basin, the Sadah Basin is situated in Yemen’s western highlands about 250km north of Sana’a as shown in Figure 3.1 below. The basin is characterized by sparse...
Ghana Agriculture
Agricultural land in Ghana is used mainly for production of cereal, cocoa, oil palm, root vegetables, tubers, livestock raising, and irrigated farming in conjunction with shallot farming.
...Ghana Fisheries
A quarter of the Ghanaian population lives in coastal zones and roughly 10% depend on coastal fisheries for their livelihoods. On average, 65% of the animal protein intake of Ghanaians comes...
Ghana Health
Climate change, in the form of thermal stress, can directly affect cardiovascular and respiratory morbidity and mortality. Indirectly, climate variability can influence food production,...
Colombia Vulnerability Assessment 2
Mangrove ecosystems in Tumaco face major pressures that make them susceptible, diminishing their capacity to adapt to potential impacts caused by...
Colombia Vulnerability Assessment 1
The ecosystems in Cartagena face several pressures that make them highly vulnerable, diminishing their capacity to cope with the effects of climate change.
Vulnerability Bibliography
Below are a few papers which we have found particularly useful in thinking about vulnerability to climate change. We hope you find the references useful! If you have any suggestions for other...
VA adaptation planning
Multi-stressor vulnerability
Vulnerability is broadly used to convey being susceptible to negative impacts (i.e. damage or harm) induced by some external stimuli that thereby pose a threat.
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...
NCAP Methodologies
The NCAP projects used a variety of different methodologies to explore vulnerability and adaptation, from hydrological modelling to social learning and participatory planning. This page collects...
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...
Vulnerability
Guidelines and tools for assessing the social and biophysical vulnerability to climate change.
ESCWA-Sida
1st RCA4 test simulation; mean annual temperature (1989-91)
Climate Change Vulnerabilities within Livestock in Morocco
This case study report attempts to spotlight the potential climate change consequences on North Africa’s livestock sector and possible adaptation measures. It presents a...
Vulnerability Frameworks
This page shows an exercise developed for a short course on adaptation for the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Network for Asia. It compiles a series of vulnerability frameworks which participants...
Participatory tools to aid adaptation
The table below is a summary by Kathleen Dietrich of Penn State University of the some of the many different tools used by practitioners in their work on adaptation. Many of these tools started...
Examples of vulnerability assessment
Various examples of methods of vulnerability assessment are given in the documents below. Most are participatory in nature and arise from the practitioner community and for that reason tend to...
Participatory adaptation planning in rural Zambia
People in the Mazabuka District have experienced drought and flood episodes in recent years. They are solely dependent on mixed crop-livestock agriculture, which is entirely rain-...
Adaptation tools, Case study: CRiSTAL, Zambia
The vulnerability assessment was undertaken in four ongoing field projects in Zambia, using CRiSTAL, with the purpose to get an indication of the risks related to...
Vulnerable communities adapting to floods in Kenya
The changing climatic scenarios in the Lake Victoria basin, extreme climatic events including floods ravage the livelihoods of communities in Kano plains. In the past, long rains were mainly...
Climate projections for Banjul
Change in rainfall for the period 2046-2065 from various climate models.
Uncertainty over the driving forces of current W. African climate, such as the W. African...
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