Vulnerability and Adaptation Methods and Tools
NATIONAL LOCAL INTEGRATED / DYNAMIC SECTORAL / STATIC GLOBAL GIS temporal Indicator analysis and ranking Statistical indicator approach Vulnerability index GIS-based modeling Participatory GIS Climate Impact Assessment Stakeholders analysis Multi-criteria assessment Cost-benefit analysis Environmental action plan Stakeholder survey/ workshops Priority ranking matrix Overlaying hazard maps Action in context Climate Livelihood Impact Matrix Participatory GIS Multi-criteria assessment Climate Impact Assessment Late Environmental Action Process PRA Climate change based action planning Pressure-State –Impact- ResponsePressure-State –Impact- Response Remote Sensing - GISRemote Sensing - GIS
GAPS Scale – including global pressure on local vulnerability and adaptation Scale – including global pressure on local vulnerability and adaptation Validating the tools Validating the tools Workshops and stakeholder participation Workshops and stakeholder participation Secondary Data and statistical means Secondary Data and statistical means Communicating results to the end users Communicating results to the end users
GAPS Standardizing methods: Standardizing methods: Consensus on principles and framing Consensus on principles and framing Experience and advice on matching methodology to user needs Experience and advice on matching methodology to user needs Locally relevant choices of methods and tools Locally relevant choices of methods and tools
GAPS Additional tools available and not mentioned Additional tools available and not mentioned Socio-economic scenarios, e.g., SRES Socio-economic scenarios, e.g., SRES Sectoral integrated models, e.g., Agricultural trade Sectoral integrated models, e.g., Agricultural trade Decision and risk assessment tools, e.g., coping ranges, household economic Decision and risk assessment tools, e.g., coping ranges, household economic
Issues: Vulnerability Link / support participatory VA and formal use of data and indicators Link / support participatory VA and formal use of data and indicators How to combine indicators, visualization and interpretation How to combine indicators, visualization and interpretation How do livelihoods change in the future? How do livelihoods change in the future? Conflicts over interpretation of vulnerability Conflicts over interpretation of vulnerability
Issues: Planning Adaptation Identify the link including projects between actors and their adaptive options Identify the link including projects between actors and their adaptive options Prioritization in a program and strategy Prioritization in a program and strategy Improvise techniques to match the needs Improvise techniques to match the needs No one tool is adequate No one tool is adequate Share experiences, e.g., common survey forms Share experiences, e.g., common survey forms
Issues: Planning Adaptation Links to Planning – how to incorporate climate adaptation into existing processes Links to Planning – how to incorporate climate adaptation into existing processes What are the common criteria? What are the common criteria? Consensus and conflict resolution Consensus and conflict resolution
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