Author: Kent, C. et al.
Year of publication: 2017
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk 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
Details: Climate scientists/GIS experts as this is a highly scientific approach requiring in-depth understanding of data analysis
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: National, regional
Assesment to be used by which target audience: State level decision makers
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Physically plausible model simulations
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Science
Applied in practice: Partly
Geographic coverage in analysis: North America, Asia
Potential geographic coverage: USA, China
Sectors covered: Agriculture, Water sector
Details: Maize production
Method used: Quantitative model
Description of methodology: Calculating and combining statistics of agricultural data, historical meteorological data, severe water stress indicator, and climate model data
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Exposure, risk
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Drought
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Agricultural data, historical meteorological data, climate model data
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No
Details: The analysis performed here is based on one climate model. Thus, provides no assessment of model structural uncertainty
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Economic
Details: Qualitative description only
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No
Details: Focus only on drought
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Understanding the spatial pattern of risk across a country and ability to assess the spatial component of exposure at different scales
Applied by whom: Kent, C. et al.
Open access: Yes