Author: Gombos, M. et al.
Year of publication: 2013
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Details: Handbook
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Government representatives
Institutional scale of use: Local/community
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Local decision makers
Details: Guide is designed for practitioners working within and with local governments and communities that normally facilitate capacity development at the community or local level
Output: Report
Details: Local Early Action Plan
Region of origin: Australia and Oceania
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Pacific Islands
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Agriculture, Fishery, Humanitarian sector, Not sector specific
Details: Methodology involves stakeholder representatives from different sectors to form an overall picture from the community
Method used: Qualitative method
Description of methodology: Participatory training course
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Hazards, vulnerabilities
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: This assessment is not based on scientific data but more on the community’s knowledge and experience, and known climate predictions for the future.
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Focus group discussions, training facilitation
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Partly
Details: The tool includes guiding questions on both extreme weather events in the last years, slow onset events such as sea level rise, increase of air and sea temperature and their effect on extreme weather events
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: The guide considers socio-economic vulnerability but does not include quantitative calculation of losses
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Details: The tool includes guiding questions on both extreme weather events in the last years, slow onset events such as sea level rise, increase of air and sea temperature and their effect on extreme weather events
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Usefulness for political purposes: Climate funds
Applied by whom: weADAPT
Open access: Yes