Author: UNDP, Australian Government, Philippines Climate Chanage Commission
Year of publication: 2014
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Pre-disaster risk assessment
Format of assessment: App
Details: A mobile survey tool to collect data; A desktop application for viewing, analyzing, and generating tables and charts from the gathered data; A server to upload and store all collected data
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Consultants (climate experts)
Institutional scale of use: Local/community
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Local decision makers
Output: Risk map
Details: Data is collected via a survey and the findings are presented in various maps, eg. a production map: farm affected by flood; production map: livestock output etc.
Region of origin: Australia and Oceania, Asia, North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Urban sector, Agriculture
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Field surveys to be conducted through direct-questionnaire interviews, taking photographs, and capturing geographic coordinates from the GPS or maps built into the app
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: All
Details: Risks and exposure of households, buildings, and production areas
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Primary (data has to be generated)
Details: Data is to be collected from field surveys through direct-questionnaire interviews, taking photographs, and capturing geographic coordinates from the GPS or maps built into the app. Three types of surveys may be created and recorded through the application: household survey, building survey, and production area survey
Temporal scale: All
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Surveys, interviews, trainings
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Adressing uncertainty: No information
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Details: The database can be used to improve urban and regional planning by refining land use maps and providing insights on areas where developments are being proposed. Land uses within settlement areas may now be defined at the building level, while production areas like agriculture can be described according to crops grown and possible threats from natural hazards. When applied to infrastructure planning and urban development, it will be used to decide retrofitting strategies and setting local building standards. The exposure data will be used to define requirements for drainage improvement, retention/detention ponds for subdivisions and other forms of land development
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Economic
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Partly
Details: It does not include recommendations directly, but it is used as a baseline to chose adaptation options and inform such decision making
Usefulness for political purposes: It is very useful for a political purpose and has informed many local governemnts
Applied by whom: Project Climate Twin Phoenix
Open access: Yes