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- Summary:
- This document provides an in-depth analysis of how best to measure the effects of climate change at the national and local levels in order to develop the most successful mitigation and adaptation initiatives. It outlines a bottom-up approach to assessing the costs of disasters, offering a pro-poor multi-secotral perspective. The cases explored include Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique. Climate change and development are interconnected processes, whereby climate change and its impacts often limit development prospects, while development decisions influence the capacity to carry out adaptation measures. Though many developing countries have established National Adaptation Programs of Action, often they fail to move beyond the policymaking stage towards locally-specific adaptation and mitigation. This document outlines the objectives of the Social Component of the World Bank’s Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) Study, which seeks to “bridge the gap between community needs and priorities at the micro level and policy processes at the macro level, with an emphasis on the fact that higher-level policy development and planning must be informed by lessons learned and insights gained at the local level.” This is to be carried out in two ways: (i) by supplying local actors with the knowledge and capacity to investigate community vulnerability and adaptive capacities; and (ii) developing an “Innovative Participatory Scenario Development Approach.” This is similar to The Community Disaster Resilience Fund (CDRF) approach that seeks to develop an effective and efficiently structured system for coordinating the efforts of national, regional, and community actors in achieving and sustaining community-based mitigation and adaptation programs. The major difference, however, is that the Innovative Participatory Scenario Development Approach’s primary focus is on forecasting, through the use of appropriate tools and climate projections, to determine the opportunity costs of the implementation of various adaption activities. While providing a good basis for assessing the cost of hydrometeorological hazards, it neglects to provide a comprehensive measure as to the indicators that will be used in assessing these costs. It would prove beneficial if DRR scholars try, upon reading this paper, to develop an index for assessing the cost of disasters at the local and regional levels. ( English )
- Subject:
- Risk Reduction ( English )
- Subject:
- Climate Change ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Kuriakose, A.T., Bizikova, L., Bachofen, C.A. (2009). Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels. Social Development Department—The World Bank, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
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- Florida International University
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- To request copies of the paper or for more information on the series, please contact the Social Development Department. Social Development,
The World Bank. 1818 H Street, NW. Washington, DC 20433
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13042546
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