Author: Preston, B. et al.
Year of publication: 2007
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Format of assessment: Scientific article
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Scientists/researchers
Institutional scale of use: Regional
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Regional decision makers
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Vulnerability map, impact map
Region of origin: Australia and Oceania
Developed by which sector: Science
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Australia and Oceania
Potential geographic coverage: Australia
Sectors covered: Biodiversity, Health sector, Humanitarian sector,
Details: Method analyses 5 potential impacts which are relevant to different sectors such as health, disaster risk management, drainage, environmental management
Method used: Scenario mapping
Description of methodology: Quantitative and qualitative assessment of vulnerability and impact
Risk framework used: Broad risk mapping according to different definition
Details: Vulnerability mapping
Risk components incorporated: Exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Extreme temperatures, Extreme rainfall, Sea level rise, Wildfire
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Current regional climate gradients, projections of future climate change, topography, land use and cover, demographic information as well as indicators of council resources and performance
Temporal scale: Current, Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Partly
Adressing uncertainty: Partly
Details: Uncertainties are mentioned
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: No information
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Details: Including both, SOE and EWE
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Quantitative estimation of impacts and a spatially explicit view of consequence are likely to be attractive to stakeholders as they provide a readily interpretable image of potential consequences, their scale, and hence where management efforts should be directed and how much investment may be required
Applied by whom: Preston, B. et al.
Open access: Yes