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Adapting to coastal climate change: A guidebook for development planners

AIMED AT: Policymakers and practitioners PURPOSE: Guidebook is both a tool in itself and a link to other resources to help with efforts to build resiliency against the impacts of climate change GEOGRAPHIC AREA: coastal zones and world oceans (approx. 40% of worlds population) THEMATIC AREA: Climate change and climate variability, mainstreaming, coastal management BASIC STRUCTURE: The guidebook describes the 5-step process. Step 1: Assess vulnerability. The vulnerability assessment identifies numerous climate change risks and potential impacts to different sectors. Assessing a coastal area’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change involves understanding: 1) the climate projections for a given religion or locale, 2) what is at risk (climate change exposure and sensitivity) and 3) the capacity of society to cope with the expected of actual climate changes (adaptive capacity). Step 2: Select course of action. The first thing in selecting a course of action is to identify the priority climate change risks upon which to focus efforts and resources. Step 3: Mainstream coastal adaptation. It is important to recognize that climate changes adaptation presents a fundamental challenge to managing the coastal resources and should be “mainstreamed” into coastal management and developed at all levels. Step 4: Implement adaptation. It is important to strengthen legal framework and enforcement as well as personnel capabilities. Step 5: Evaluate for adaptive management. All evaluations of coastal adaptation measures involve a similar methodology and steps. The steps of the evaluation include the following: Specify evaluation questions, elaborate an evaluation plan, conduct the evaluation and communicate the results.

01 jan. 2016

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