Author: Van der Geest, K., Schindler, M.
Year of publication: 2017
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Details: Handbook
Estimated costs for conducting: 20000 USD
Estimated duration of assessment: Approximately 24 days
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: Excel sheet
Details: Diverse outputs ranging from maps, qualitative / narrative information up to facts and figures
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Science
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Livelihood sector
Details: Depending on local livelihoods but mainly focus on agriculture
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Desk study, household questionnaire, Participatory Rural Appraisal, expert interviews, stories of loss and damage, participatory evaluation of CCA and DRR initiatives
Risk framework used: AR5
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Changing precipitation patterns, Coastal erosion, Cyclone (including tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon), Desertification, Flood, Landslide, Sea level rise
Details: Climate/ meteorological data; literature review on relevant climatic variables and impact data, but focus on participatory data generation
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Majority of the applied tools are of participatory nature
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Details: Form of interconnectedness explicitly assessed
Adressing uncertainty: Partly
Details: As the study is backward looking/focusing on current time, the uncertainty of climate projections is not addressed. However, uncertainty in the context of climatic variability is dealt with
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization of adaptation options, identification of limits to adaptation
Details: Method aims to understand adaptation costs, limits and constraints
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: Mental stress, health, loss of identity
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Details: Distinguished as slow onset processes reacted to via adaptation and extreme events that population copes with
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Details: Analyses currently implemented adaptation and coping action and evaluate their costs, benefits, constraints and limits
Usefulness for political purposes: Handbook seeks to support evidence-based assessments of L&D in order to facilitate decision making
Applied by whom: UNU-EHS
Open access: Yes