Author: Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI USA), Azavea Inc.
Year of publication: 2016
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Details: Comprehensive vulnerability assessment
Format of assessment: Web tool
Estimated costs for conducting: 1500-4200 USD / year
Estimated duration of assessment: Several days (longer if stakeholder involved)
To be carried out by whom: Government representatives
Details: City level
Institutional scale of use: Local/community
Details: City level
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Local decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation, private sector
Applied in practice: No information
Geographic coverage in analysis: North America
Potential geographic coverage: USA (cities)
Sectors covered: Agriculture, Biodiversity, Infrastructure, Forestry, Commercial sector, Health Sector, Water sector, Energy sector, Education sector, Humanitarian sector
Details: Waste Management, Information & Communications Technology, Industrial, Residential, Community & Culture, Law & Order
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Quantitative modeling for climate related hazards is combined with literature based identification of adaptation options
Risk framework used: Broad risk mapping according to different definition
Details: In Temperate, a “risk” is the pairing of a climate-related hazard and a community system (a subset of people, structures or assets) that may be impacted by it
Risk components incorporated: Hazard, risk
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Changing precipitation patterns, Changing temperature patterns, Loss of biodiversity, Extreme temperatures, Extreme rainfall, Drought, Flood, Wildfire
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Tool links automatically to NASA produced temperature and precipitation data for cities across the entire USA historically and under two popular carbon emission scenarios projected until the end of the century
Temporal scale: Current, Forward looking
Participatory elements: Partly
Details: As decided by user (can invite colleagues / stakeholders to the tool)
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Adressing uncertainty: Partly
Details: Use of means of different models and visualizing the whole range represented by the models
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
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: Yes
Details: Based on research done in adaptation planning documents published by cities in the U.S.
Applied by whom: ICLEI USA, Azavea Inc.
Open access: Only methodology of the digital tool is open access