Climate Change: Adaptation Tools and Guides
Scenario Planning for Climate Change Adaptation: a Guidance for Resource Managers
This document is intended to be a step‐by‐step guide to using scenarios to plan for climate change adaptation. The intended audience includes natural resource managers, planners, scientists and other stakeholders working at a local or regional scale to develop resource management approaches that take future possible climate change impacts and other important uncertainties into account.
Tools for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments for Watersheds
The purpose of a vulnerability assessment is to generate knowledge that improves understanding of the implications of climate change. The knowledge generated by a vulnerability assessment can inform allocation of resources for climate change planning and adaptation. This compendium of tools was prepared for use by technical experts, adaptation planners and resource managers to develop climate change vulnerability assessments of water quantity and water quality at a watershed scale.
UKCIP Adaptation Wizard
Hosted by UKCIP, the Adaptation Wizard is a 5-step process that provides a framework and resources to help you generate information to inform your own adaptation strategy.Whether you are new to climate change, or are looking for guidance on how to adapt to climate impacts, the Wizard can help you to: raise your awareness of climate change and adaptation, access information, tools and resources to help you, assess your vulnerability to climate change, make the case for adaptation in your organisation, develop a climate-resilient project, programme, policy or strategy, and develop and implement a climate change adaptation strategy.
Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change: How Ready is your Health Care Organization
To help health organizations evaluate their preparedness and become more resilient to climate- related risks, the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, together with Climate Change Nova Scotia and Health Canada, developed the “Health Care Facility Climate Change Resiliency Toolkit” which includes three components: a resiliency assessment checklist, a facilitator’s guide and an information resource guide.
Climate Resilience Framework
The Climate Resilience Framework is a conceptual framework for simplifying and analyzing complex relationships between people, systems, institutions and climate change. The framework helps clarify factors that need to be included in the diagnosis of climate vulnerability, structures the systematic analysis of vulnerability in ways that clearly identify the entry points for responding, and supports strategic planning to build resilience to climate change. All training materials are available for free download on this website. You may download an entire series, a single set or activity.
Building Adaptive & Resilient Communities Tool (BARC)
ICLEI‘s Building Adaptive & Resilient Communities Tool (BARC Tool) is an easy-to-use, one-stop-shop designed to keep track of all your municipal adaptation and resilience information and data as you work through ICLEI’s municipal adaptation methodology. Municipal users will have unlimited access to Milestone One of the Tool, allowing them to take the first significant steps of a climate change adaptation and resilience effort. These include establishing the context for your adaptation plan, identifying key stakeholders, building and tasking your adaptation team, identifying an adaptation champion, taking a first look at your municipality’s existing broader climate change context, accessing local climate data, solidifying the adaptation planning process through a political commitment, and planning how to move further forward on adaptation. The Tool helps set up the fundamental building blocks of a significant municipal adaptation effort.
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Monitoring & Evaluation for Climate Change Adaptation: a Synthesis of Tools, Frameworks and Approaches
This report represents a synthesis and summary of frameworks for the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate change adaptation (CCA) interventions. Objective: Provide an easy-to-read synthesis of current adaptation M&E resources, frameworks, and approaches so that practitioners are able to more easily identify the information and tools that are most relevant to their needs; and Provide a short analysis of the “state of play” of adaptation M&E guidance, identifying key themes and reflecting upon gaps and future priorities.
Provia Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change
The Federal Highway Administration’s Climate Change & Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessment Framework
This report is a guide for transportation agencies interested in assessing their vulnerability to climate change and extreme weather events. It gives an overview of key steps in conducting vulnerability assessments and uses in-practice examples to demonstrate a variety of ways to gather and process information. The framework is comprised of three key steps: defining study objectives and scope; assessing vulnerability; and incorporating results into decision making.
A Self-Assessment to Address Climate Change Readiness in Your Community
The purpose of this self-assessment is to provide community leaders, administrators, planners, engineers, public work directors, and/or natural resource managers with a simple and inexpensive method to review their community's potential vulnerabilities to climate trends and to begin the conversation of how and when to incorporate these trends into planning and projects within our communities. Municipal staff will fill out simple, straightforward checklists to assess the status of the following nine categories of municipal infrastructure: (more…)