• Publication 16 August 2021 Condemned to live with one's feet in water? A case study of community based strategies and urban maladaptation in flood prone Pikine/Dakar, Senegal Purpose – The number of poor and informal urban settlers in the world is rapidly growing, and they are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate. Therefore, understanding the nature and sustainability of locally adopted coping and adaptation strategies are key, yet still under-researched areas. Design/methodology/approach – Based on ethnographic research conducted in two poor, flood-prone municipalities in Pikine/Dakar, this paper identifies such coping and adaptation…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Governance and Community Responses to Floods in Poor Peri-urban Areas In recent years, urban flooding has become an increasingly severe and frequent problem for the poor in many West African urban centres. In diverse metropoles of the region, including Lagos, Cotonou, Accra, Abidjan and Dakar, low-income populations who typically live undesirable flood-prone areas see their already considerable vulnerability increased for every flooding event. In the long term, climate change is expected to make matters worse for these already tried populations, due to an…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Together: A Global Assessment of Agriculture and Forestry Projects Adaptation and mitigation share the ultimate purpose of reducing climate change impacts. However, they tend to be considered separately in projects and policies because of their different objectives and scales. Agriculture and forestry are related to both adaptation and mitigation: they contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and removals, are vulnerable to climate variations, and form part of adaptive strategies for rural livelihoods. We assessed how climate change project design documents …
• Publication 16 August 2021 Climate Change Risks – Methodological Framework and Case Study of Damages from Extreme Events in Cambodia Climate change imposes some special risks on Least Developed Countries, and the chapter presents a methodological framework, which can be used to assess the impacts of key assumptions related to damage costs, risks and equity implications on current and future generations. The methodological framework is applied to a case study of severe storms in Cambodia based on statistical information on past storm events including information about buildings damaged and victims. Despite there is limited…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Evaluer et prioriser les technologies d’adaptation au changement climatique. Orientations pratiques pour une analyse multicritères et l’identification et évaluation de critères afférents L’objectif de ce guide est de guider les consultants, les décideurs et les experts techniques sur la façon de faciliter les discussions pour prioriser les technologies d’adaptation, et de soutenir les parties prenantes dans l’identification des critères appropriés pour cette analyse.
• Publication 16 August 2021 Evaluating and prioritizing technologies for adaptation to climate change. A hands on guidance to multi criteria analysis (MCA) and the identification and assessment of related criteria The objective of this guidance is to guide consultants, decision makers and technical experts on how to facilitate discussions for prioritizing adaptation technologies, and to support the stakeholders in identifying appropriate criteria for this analysis.
• Publication 16 August 2021 Good Practice in Designing and Implementing National Monitoring Systems for Adaptation to Climate Change In this report, we identify, analyse and compare international good practices in the design and implementation of national monitoring and evaluating indicator systems for climate change adaptation. This first chapter provides an introduction to the context and key terminology in the domain of climate change adaptation and indicators for M&E of adaptation. The second chapter discusses the existing approaches to M&E, while Chapter 3 provides a general overview of approaches to M&E…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Adaptation technologies as drivers of social development

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