Author: Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
Year of publication: 2013
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Government representatives and climate experts
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: National, Regional
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Regional, state and local decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: Central Asia
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Asia
Potential geographic coverage: Central Asia
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Details: Method allows for three options of focus: specific sectors; specific locations; specific hazards
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: The climate-related risk assessment approach identified for Central Asia is based on an input-impact conceptualization of the links between climate and society. The conceptualization is actualized as an impact-based assessment of climate events, and a perception-based assessment of climate impact consequences and management options
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Baseline data including elevation, administrative boundaries and place names, hydrologic and physical features (including elevation), population (disaggregated by gender) and roads and other infrastructure. Hazard data including the location, frequency, and magnitude of an event. Measurement is normally in terms of the number of events per period of time, often per year, or per 30 years, or up to 100 years for climate change risk assessments. Climate hazard damage data including aggregate damage in economic terms and in detail (e.g. number of lives loss, quantity of goods lost, number of buildings lost, etc.) as well as assistance provided, with analysis presented as per capita loss per hazard and per period, in monetary terms if possible. Socio-economic data covering available natural, social, financial and physical capitals, in terms of number, type and value
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Perception-based assessment of climate impact consequences and management options by using surveys
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Details: Includes identification of correlation between climate-related hazards and climate parameters
Adressing uncertainty: No
Details: Where uncertainty is present in the results, it should be clearly noted. Where the detail and veracity of data is sufficient, more statistics-based methods can be used to present uncertainty (although a screening of available data indicates that such methods are not generally usable for the relevant data sets available for risk assessment in Central Asia).
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Climate funds
Applied by whom: CDKN, UNDP Central Asia Climate Risk Management Program
Open access: Yes