Author: World Bank
Year of publication: 2010
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Climate change adaptation assessment
Format of assessment: Report
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Scientists/researchers, economists
Institutional scale of use: Continental
Details: Tool examines the costs / benefits of different adaptation options. Scale of use depends on scale of application of these options
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Local decision makers
Output: Report
Details: Different economic models will be part of the assessment
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Partly
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Details: Can also be scaled up to other sectors
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Offers a 9 step approach in which a set of different methodologies can be used depending on the context: Crop models,Ricardian Model. MCDA, Propability based approach, real option analysis , robust decision making, interviews
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Cyclone (including tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon), Drought, Flood, Landslide, Sea level rise
Details: Data depends on which combination of methods is used. Generally weather, climate data, data on agicultural land, data on crops, etc.
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Interviews are part of it
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization of adaptation options
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: Yes
Usefulness for political purposes: It is useful to assess certain project, also for political decision makers, but not primarily for them
Applied by whom: The World Bank
Open access: Yes