Author: The World Bank, GFDRR
Year of publication: 2017 (2nd version)
Available languages: English, French, Spanish
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Web tool
Estimated costs for conducting: Low
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Development sector practitioners who are not experts in natural hazards but require hazard information for project planning and disaster risk management purposes
Institutional scale of use: Continental
Details: Global, regional or national
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Project planners and disaster risk manager
Output: Risk map
Details: Classification into four categories of hazard (probablistic or index data)
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: No information
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Details: Only hazards covered, no sectoral perspective
Method used: Quantitative model
Description of methodology: Quantitative probalistic risk estimation
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Hazard
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Cyclone (including tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon), Earthquake, Extreme temperatures, Flood, Landslide, Tsunami, Volcanic eruption, Water scarcity, Wildfire
Details: No data needed (only location)
Participatory elements: Partly
Details: Weighting of indicators has been done by an expert team
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: Qualitative description only
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Allows decision makers to collect, share, and understand risk information
Applied by whom: The World Bank/ GFDRR
Open access: Yes