Implementing adaptation - Identifying means - training for adaptationVestlandsforsking WRNI
Identifying Possible Means for Adaptation
This module provides a general overview of the different categories of climate change adaptation measures and includes the following:
Typology of Adaptation
Preparing for Adaptation
Active Measures
Evaluating adaptation strategies- Barriers to adaptation - Training for Adap...Vestlandsforsking WRNI
Barriers to Climate Specific Adaptation
This module provides a typology of barriers, and suggests a method to assess barriers and thus, ideally, avoid such barriers.
Evaluating adaptation - Avoiding maladaptation- training for adaptationVestlandsforsking WRNI
Avoiding Maladaptation
This module provides a more detailed look at the issue of maladaptation and includes the following:
The links and conflicts between mitigation and adaptation
Adaptation and sustainable development
How to identify and avoid maladaptation
The potential for mal-mitigation
Developing adaptation strategies background training for adaptationVestlandsforsking WRNI
Identifying the Main Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
This module provides an general overview of the main strategies for climate change adaptation and includes more detailed definitions of
-adaptation
-vulnerability
-resilience
-exposure and sensitivity
Online Training Resource for Climate Adaptation: Adaptation Strategies - Whic...Deborah Davies
Identifying the Main Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
This module provides an general overview of the main strategies for climate change adaptation and includes more detailed definitions of
-adaptation
-vulnerability
-resilience
-exposure and sensitivity
Online Training Resource for Climate Adaptation: Evaluation Techniques- Avoid...Deborah Davies
Avoiding Maladaptation
This module provides a more detailed look at the issue of maladaptation and includes the following:
The links and conflicts between mitigation and adaptation
Adaptation and sustainable development
How to identify and avoid maladaptation
The potential for mal-mitigation
Interpreting Climate Data - Analysing climate vulnerability- online training ...Vestlandsforsking WRNI
Interpreting Climate Data
This module provides an introduction to climate data and how to effectively use it. The following will be covered:
How regionalised climate data is produced
How to understand and interpret regionalised climate data
How to identify and communicate uncertainties
Implementing adaptation - Identifying means - training for adaptationVestlandsforsking WRNI
Identifying Possible Means for Adaptation
This module provides a general overview of the different categories of climate change adaptation measures and includes the following:
Typology of Adaptation
Preparing for Adaptation
Active Measures
Evaluating adaptation strategies- Barriers to adaptation - Training for Adap...Vestlandsforsking WRNI
Barriers to Climate Specific Adaptation
This module provides a typology of barriers, and suggests a method to assess barriers and thus, ideally, avoid such barriers.
Evaluating adaptation - Avoiding maladaptation- training for adaptationVestlandsforsking WRNI
Avoiding Maladaptation
This module provides a more detailed look at the issue of maladaptation and includes the following:
The links and conflicts between mitigation and adaptation
Adaptation and sustainable development
How to identify and avoid maladaptation
The potential for mal-mitigation
Developing adaptation strategies background training for adaptationVestlandsforsking WRNI
Identifying the Main Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
This module provides an general overview of the main strategies for climate change adaptation and includes more detailed definitions of
-adaptation
-vulnerability
-resilience
-exposure and sensitivity
Online Training Resource for Climate Adaptation: Adaptation Strategies - Whic...Deborah Davies
Identifying the Main Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
This module provides an general overview of the main strategies for climate change adaptation and includes more detailed definitions of
-adaptation
-vulnerability
-resilience
-exposure and sensitivity
Online Training Resource for Climate Adaptation: Evaluation Techniques- Avoid...Deborah Davies
Avoiding Maladaptation
This module provides a more detailed look at the issue of maladaptation and includes the following:
The links and conflicts between mitigation and adaptation
Adaptation and sustainable development
How to identify and avoid maladaptation
The potential for mal-mitigation
Interpreting Climate Data - Analysing climate vulnerability- online training ...Vestlandsforsking WRNI
Interpreting Climate Data
This module provides an introduction to climate data and how to effectively use it. The following will be covered:
How regionalised climate data is produced
How to understand and interpret regionalised climate data
How to identify and communicate uncertainties
Managing coral reefs in the face of climate change: Is there any point (IWC5...Iwl Pcu
Paul Marshall, Director – Climate Change
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Presentation given during the 5th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Cairns, Australia (during the pre-conference workshop marine ecosystems, Global Change and Marine Resources).
meeting the needs but protecting the environment, Environmental education and training, Environmental degradation and pollution, Resource management, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental Management System, Elements of an EMS, ISO 14001 standard
Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management w.r.t. Climate Change and Climate Variability: Project Experiences and Lessons from India. Presentation during World Meteorology Day at Ministry of Earth Sciences, India Meteorological Society, 23 March 2019 at New Delhi
Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Bangladesh PerspectiveShahadat Hossain Shakil
EIA as an environment management tool has been successful in terms of global awareness rising over the last four decades. Due to its rationalist approach it has been criticised about the inherent aim of influencing development decision and protecting the environment. Numerous researches have been performed to measure the ‘effectiveness of EIA’ which is still evolving as a domain. Four major criteria’s have been established till date. Effectiveness of Bangladesh EIA system has been explored with the help of those criteria’s. Procedural ineffectiveness seeks government measure in a couple areas mainly through institutional arrangement and capacity building. Substantive ineffectiveness reflects the global trend of failure to influence the development decision truly. Transactive effectiveness will be far reaching for a country like Bangladesh, depended on foreign aid largely. Normative effectiveness is still little known, but mass awareness about the environment through the debate regarding an ES report is a recent experience.
Assessment of the Extent to which Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) ca...Shahadat Hossain Shakil
In this study the extent of addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation through SEA will be trying to explore based on available literatures, which is very few due to this domains infancy till date. In doing so present context of climate change will be described concisely. Following that, nexus between climate change and SEA will be highlighted based on SEA principles, guidance and best practice manual and empirical evidences of the integration in several countries. Drawing insights from the prior discussions, deficits and recommendations will be stated for future research agendas.
Managing coral reefs in the face of climate change: Is there any point (IWC5...Iwl Pcu
Paul Marshall, Director – Climate Change
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Presentation given during the 5th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Cairns, Australia (during the pre-conference workshop marine ecosystems, Global Change and Marine Resources).
meeting the needs but protecting the environment, Environmental education and training, Environmental degradation and pollution, Resource management, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental Management System, Elements of an EMS, ISO 14001 standard
Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management w.r.t. Climate Change and Climate Variability: Project Experiences and Lessons from India. Presentation during World Meteorology Day at Ministry of Earth Sciences, India Meteorological Society, 23 March 2019 at New Delhi
Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Bangladesh PerspectiveShahadat Hossain Shakil
EIA as an environment management tool has been successful in terms of global awareness rising over the last four decades. Due to its rationalist approach it has been criticised about the inherent aim of influencing development decision and protecting the environment. Numerous researches have been performed to measure the ‘effectiveness of EIA’ which is still evolving as a domain. Four major criteria’s have been established till date. Effectiveness of Bangladesh EIA system has been explored with the help of those criteria’s. Procedural ineffectiveness seeks government measure in a couple areas mainly through institutional arrangement and capacity building. Substantive ineffectiveness reflects the global trend of failure to influence the development decision truly. Transactive effectiveness will be far reaching for a country like Bangladesh, depended on foreign aid largely. Normative effectiveness is still little known, but mass awareness about the environment through the debate regarding an ES report is a recent experience.
Assessment of the Extent to which Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) ca...Shahadat Hossain Shakil
In this study the extent of addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation through SEA will be trying to explore based on available literatures, which is very few due to this domains infancy till date. In doing so present context of climate change will be described concisely. Following that, nexus between climate change and SEA will be highlighted based on SEA principles, guidance and best practice manual and empirical evidences of the integration in several countries. Drawing insights from the prior discussions, deficits and recommendations will be stated for future research agendas.
Speaker: John Labadie
Emergency managers will have to deal with the impending, possibly extreme, and uncertain
effects of climate change. Yet, many emergency managers are not aware of the full range of
possible climate change effects, and they are unsure of their place in the effort to plan for, adapt
to, and cope with those effects. This may partly reflect emergency mangers‟ reluctance to get
caught up in the rancorous – and politically-charged – debate about climate change, but it mostly
is due to the worldview shared by most emergency managers. We focus on: extreme events;
acute vs. chronic hazards (floods vs. droughts); a shorter event horizon (5 years vs. 75-100
years); and a shorter planning and operational cycle. This presentation explores the important
intersection of emergency management, environmental management, and climate change
mitigation and adaptation. It examines the different definitions of terms common to all three
fields, the overlapping strategies used in all three fields, and the best means of collaboration and
mutual re-enforcement among the three to confront and solve the many possible futures that we
may face in the climate change world. Emergency managers must take a seat at the table and
involve themselves in all aspects of planning for and dealing with effects of climate change.
Online Training Resource for Climate Adaptation: Analysing Climate Vulnerabil...Deborah Davies
This module provides an introduction to climate data and how to effectively use it. The following will be covered:
-How regionalised climate data is produced
-How to understand and interpret regionalised climate data
-How to identify and communicate uncertainties
Methodological Framework for AssessingVulnerability to Climate Change by IPCCHILLFORT
IPCC Climate vulnerability Assessment procedure. The presentation was a part of College Assignment. I am thankful to ITPI journal where I got the topic for the same. The reference is:
Methodological Frameworks for Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change. Written by Rekha S Nair and Dr. Alka Bharat.
Institute of Town Planners, India Journal 8 - 1, 01 - 15, January - March 2011
Basis for an effective climate change adaptation: Case small Mexican agricultureIJERA Editor
Mexico is considered one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change effects. Its geographical location and climatic, orographic and hydrological conditions contribute considerably to this situation. The objective of this paper is to propose a guide for stakeholders in the selection and efficient design of adaptation measures to face climate change, taking into account constraints on resources availability (financial, technological, human, and others), which force the search of criteria to capitalize actions. The paper consists of four sections: Initially, conceptual and legal framework is present, regarding the issue of climate change, its impact on sectors in Mexico, the identification of the necessity and adaptation capacity and the importance of the interrelation between water, energy and food production. Next, principles for effective adaptation are studied. In the third section, it is discussed through a case study, the efficiency of adaptation policies in small agriculture in Mexico. Final section presents some recommendations and conclusions. It is concluded that adaptation projects proposals should be concrete and clearly address the problem, considering a feasibility analysis. Also, that climate change threatens the stability and productivity of the agricultural sector, which forces society to protect it by progressing to climate-smart production systems in order to strengthen food security.
Selecting the Right Strategy
This module outlines the principles for prioritising between different adaptation measures in particular
-Cost-effectiveness
-Precautionary principle
It concludes with a list of recommended criteria for selecting the right strategy
Prosessfase 3 Sette i gang tilpasningstiltak gjennomføre tilpasningstiltakVestlandsforsking WRNI
Prosessfase 3 Sette i gang tilpasningstiltak: Gjennomføre tilpasningstiltak
Gjennomføre tilpasningstiltak
Denne seksjonen skisserer hvordan å iverksette tiltak og innlemme handlinger i eksisterende prosjekter og strategier.
Process Stage 1 Analysing Climate Vulnerability: Combining
Combining Vulnerabilities to Assess Local Vulnerability
This module explores how to combine the three sets of vulnerabilities, natural, socio-economic and institutional into a matrix of !total vulnerability" and apply this locally.
Process Stage 1 Analysing Climate Vulnerability: Institutional
Institutional Climate Vulnerability
This module outlines how institutional capacity affects vulnerability to climate change and will cover how to identify and address weaknesses in institutional capacity in order to reduce vulnerability.
Prosessfase 4 Evaluere strategier og tiltak, barrierene mot klimaendringeneVestlandsforsking WRNI
Prosessfase 4
Evaluere strategier og tiltak: Barrierene mot klimaendringene
Barrierene mot klimaendringene
Denne seksjonen inneholder en typologi for barrierer og foreslår en metode for å vurdere mulige barrierer og dermed danne grunnlag for å unngå disse.
Prosessfase 4 Evaluere strategier og tiltak: Unngå maladaptasjon
Unngå maladaptasjon
Denne seksjonen gir et mer detaljert syn på spørsmålet om maladaptasjon og omfatter følgende:
• • • •
Koblingene og konfliktene mellom utslippsreduksjon og tilpasning Tilpasning og bærekraftig utvikling Hvordan identifisere og unngå maladaptasjon Potensialet for malmitigation
Prosessfase 4 Evaluere strategier og tiltak: Å evaluere teknikker
Evaluating Strategies and Measures
This module provides an introduction to evaluating adaptation strategies and measures and covers the following:
• •
The value of monitoring and evaluation processes How to critically evaluate adaptation actions
Prosessfase 3 Sette i gang tilpasningstiltak identifisere midler for tilpas...Vestlandsforsking WRNI
Prosessfase 3 Sette i gang tilpasningstiltak: Identifisere midler for tilpasning
Identifisere mulige midler for tilpasning
Denne seksjonen gir en generell oversikt over de ulike kategoriene av klimaendringstilpasningstiltak og omfatter følgende:
• • •
Typologi for tilpasning Forberedelser for tilpasning Aktive tiltak
Prosessfase 2 Utvikle tilpasningsstrategier: Håndtering av farer
Håndtering av farer
Denne seksjonen diskuterer de tre viktigeste risikometodene:
• • •
risikosøkende “beste skudd” risikoforebygger
Prosessfase 2 Utvikle tilpasningsstrategier spørsmålet om usikkerhet Vestlandsforsking WRNI
Prosessfase 2 Utvikle tilpasningsstrategier: Spørsmålet om usikkerhet
Håndtering av spørsmålet om usikkerhet
Denne seksjonen gir et mer grundig syn på problemer og usikkerheter, og dekker følgende:
• • •
Hvordan påvirker usikkerheter sårbarhetsvurderinger? Hva er usikkerhetskategoriene? Hvordan utføre en lokal usikkerhetsanalyse?
Prinsipper for prioritering av miljøpolitiske midler
Eksempelprinsipper som brukes ofte
-Beste tilgjengelige teknologien -Forurenseren-betaler-prinsippet -Kostnadseffektivitet -Styringseffektivitet -Forsiktighetsprinsippet -Bærekraftig utvikling
Men hvilke av disse prinsippene kan og bør bli brukt innenfor klimatilpasningsområde?
Prosessfase 2 Utvikle tilpasningsstrategier: Innledning
Identifisere de viktigste klimatilpasningsstrategiene
Denne seksjonen gir en generell oversikt over de viktigste klimatilpasningsstrategiene, og omfatter mer detaljerte definisjoner -adaptation -vulnerability
-resilience -exposure and sensitivity
Prosessfase 3 Sette i gang tilpasningstiltak gjennomføre tilpasningstiltakVestlandsforsking WRNI
Prosessfase 3 Sette i gang tilpasningstiltak: Gjennomføre tilpasningstiltak
Gjennomføre tilpasningstiltak
Denne seksjonen skisserer hvordan å iverksette tiltak og innlemme handlinger i eksisterende prosjekter og strategier.
Prosessfase 1 Analysere klimasårbarhet: Samfunnsøkonomisk klimasårbarhet
Samfunnsøkonomisk klimasårbarhet
Denne seksjonen gir en oversikt over samfunnsøkonomisk sårbarhet og metoder for å analysere dem, og vil dekke følgende:
Nyttiggjøre eksisterende metodelærer
Utvikle samfunnsøkonomiske data
Prosessfase 1 Analysere klimasårbarhet: Institusjonell klimasårbarhet
Institusjonell klimasårbarhet
Denne seksjonen skisserer hvordan institusjonell kapasitet påvirker sårbarhet mot klimaendringer. Seksjonen dekker hvordan du kan identifisere og løse svakheter i institusjonell kapasitet for å redusere sårbarheten.
Prosessfase 1 Analysere klimasårbarhet: Naturlig klimasårbarhet
Naturlig klimasårbarhet
Denne seksjonen tar opp naturlig klimasårbarhet og dekker følgende:
• • • •
Hvordan identifisere mulige konsekvenser av klimaendringene på naturlige farer. Hvordan identifisere mulige konsekvenser av klimaendringene på det innebygde miljøet. Hvordan identifisere mulige konsekvenser av klimaendringene på økosystemtjenester og naturlige miljø. Den vil også utforske hvordan å identifisere økende virkninger av klimaendringene på det naturlige miljøet.
Prosessfase 1 Analysere klimasårbarhet: Dagens klima
Vurdere sårbarheten til dagens klima
Denne seksjonen tar for seg følgende:
• Betydningen av å vurdere sårbarhetene til dagens klima. • Hvordan identifisere gjeldende tilpasningsunderskudd
Prosessfase 1 Analysere klimasårbarhet: Tolke klimadata
Denne seksjonen gir en innledning til klimadata og hvordan bruke det effektivt. Følgende dekkes: • Hvordan regionaliserte klimadata er produserte. • Hvordan forstå og tolke regionaliserte klimadata. • Hvordan identifisere og kommunisere usikkerheter.
Prosessfase 1 Analysere klimasårbarhet - ulike former for sårbarhetVestlandsforsking WRNI
Prosessfase 1 Analysere klimasårbarhet: Ulike former for sårbarhet
Ulike former for sårbarhet
• Denne seksjonen gir en beskrivelse av de ulike formene for sårbarhet og dekker følgende: • Sårbarhet i dagens og morgendagens klima • Hva er ment med naturlig, samfunnsøkonomisk og institusjonell sårbarhet? • Hvordan samhandler disse typene sårbarhet?
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
2. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
Implementing Adaptation Measures
This module outlines how to implement measures and how to incorporate actions into existing projects
and strategies
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
3. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
What is adaptation?
Adaptation is an evolutionary process. It occurs in physical,
ecological, and human systems and addresses many factors and
stresses, not simply climate change alone.
Adaptation refers both to the process of adapting and to the
condition of being adapted (Grothman & Pratt, 2005) and has
specific interpretations in particular disciplines.
Within ecology, adaptation is the process by which organisms or
species becomes better suited to its environment
In the social sciences, it refers to adjustments by individuals, or
collective behaviour within a system.
In the field of climate change and number of definitions are
available…
Grothmann, T. & Patt, A. (2005)
Adaptive capacity and human cognition: the process
of individual adaptation to climate change
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
4. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
What is adaptation?
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) defines climate change adaptation as:
An adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their
effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities
UKCIP 2011
‘any action taken to minimise the adverse effects or to take advantage of any beneficial effects of
climate change’
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
5. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
What is adaptation?
Of course adaptation is nothing new. Societies and individuals
have been adapting to changing conditions for millennia and
existing natural and human systems are - in their very nature - an
adaptive response to spatial differences in climate.
Adaptation to climate variability can be seen in social and
economic systems such as agriculture, forestry, industry,
transportation, settlements etc.These have all evolved to
accommodate inherent temporal variates from normal conditions.
However, the advent of this new era of climate change brings
new challenges that question the inherent adaptability of natural
and human systems.
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
6. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
What is adaptation?
So when looking at climate change adaptation it is good practice
to consider the following:
• Changes in social and environmental processes
• Perceptions of climate risk
• Practices and functions to reduce risk
• Exploration of new opportunities to cope with the changed
environment
To determine adaptation needs, it is crucial to identify and
comprehend issues of:
• Vulnerability,
• Resilience,
• Exposure,
• Sensitivity,
• Capacity to adapt.
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
7. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
Implementing Adaptation Measures
The UK Climate Impacts Programme report ‘Identifying
Adaptation Actions’ (2007) advises that;
‘adaptation measures should be fit for purpose, be
based on a good evidence base, involve all
stakeholders and aim to achieve SMART" [Specific,
Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timed]
objectives’.
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
9. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
Implementing Adaptation
Effect-oriented: Cause-oriented:
(Measures to reduce possible (Measures to reduce society’s
negative effects of expected exposure to the effects of climate
climate change) change)
Technical e.g. constructing avalanche e.g. preventing construction of
level protection walls houses in risk-prone areas
(technical
means)
Strategic e.g. making a flood-protection plan e.g. incorporate risk zones related to
level expected effects of climate change in
(planning) existing land-use plans
WNRI/VESTLANDSFORSKING, 2011
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
10. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
Effect Versus Cause Orientated Measures
Effect-oriented adaptation measures:
– Measures to reduce possible negative effects of expected climate change (e.g. constructing
avalanche protection walls), or trying to exploit possible positive effects (e.g. growing plants adapted
to higher average temperatures). Effect- oriented measures are by nature often technical or physical.
They are often associated with high economic costs.
Cause-oriented adaptation measures:
– Measures to reduce society’s exposure to the effects of climate change, and in turn reducing the
likelihood that negative effects of climate change occur in the first place (e.g. preventing construction
of houses in risk-prone areas). Cause- oriented measures tend to be of a regulatory nature, such as
land-use planning. Therefore, these measures often come at a high political (rather than economic)
cost.
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
11. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
Technical Versus Strategic Level Measures
The strategic level:
– Encompasses planning processes such as rehabilitation plans for water and sanitation; the use of
land-use plans to plan flood drainage channels and ocean- rise zones; plans for adaptation of
culverts; and securing roads, buildings and other infrastructure in relation to various risk zones.
The technical level:
– Encompasses a choice of climate-proof building materials and resilient technical building
solutions; minimum height requirements for new harbours and dimensioning of piers; detailed
planning and dimensioning of water and sanitation systems; etc.
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource
12. Process Stage 3
Implementing Adaptation: Options & Implementation
Final key points
Adaptation cannot avoid all impacts and realistically the following need to be considered in the
selection and implementation of adaptation measures
• There are ecological and physical thresholds
- melting Arctic, coral bleaching etc
• There are economic thresholds,
- where the costs of adaptation exceed the costs of impacts averted, this is particularly
the case in preventing/limiting geo-hazard risks and the building of sea defences
• There are technological thresholds,
-where available technologies cannot avoid climate impacts
• There are social limits,
-where groups judge adaptation actions to have failed
Climate Adaptation
C. Aall & D. Davies, 2012
Online Training Resource