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Adaptation in integrated assessment modeling: where do we stand?

It is analyzed how modelers have chosen to describe adaptation within an integrated framework, and suggest many ways they could improve the treatment of adaptation by considering more of its bottom-up characteristic

Report on the technical workshop on costs and benefits of adaptation options

This report provides a summary of the technical workshop on costs and benefits of adaptation options, organized under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Discussions at the workshop addressed methodologies for assessing costs and benefits of adaptation options and how these methodologies are applied in and across different sectors.

Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change

To meet these two objectives, the broad World Bank effort will proceed on two tracks, a case study and an aggregate track. This study is part of the aggregate track, which has two objectives. The first is to ensure the availability of developing country/regional adaptation cost estimates to contribute to the discussion on climate change leading up to the Copenhagen conference in late 2009.

Cost of Adapting Fisheries to Climate Change

To help meet these two objectives, this study is global in its scope. First, we will provide country/regional adaptation costs to contribute to the discussion on climate change leading up to the Copenhagen conference in late 2009. Second, this work will begin to develop the procedures that will be needed to generate aggregate adaptation cost numbers once country case studies are completed.

The Costs of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change

The challenge of modeling climate change impacts in agriculture arises in the wide ranging nature of processes that underlie the working of markets, ecosystems, and human behavior. Our analytical framework integrates modeling components that range from the macro to the micro and from processes that are driven by economics to those that are essentially biological in nature.

Economics of Coastal Zone Adaptation to Climate Change. Discussion paper no. 10

Analysis of the cost of climate change adaptation in the coastal zone

Guiding climate compatible development: User-orientated analysis of planning tools and methodologies

Report provides an overview of the tools and methodologies available to plan adaptation, mitigation and development, and to guide decision makers towards climate compatible development pathways.

The Costs of Adaptation

Opinion paper which reviews the existing literature on adaptation costs.

Climate-Smart Agriculture: Smallholder Adoption and Implications for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Paper provides a brief review of the adaptation and mitigation benefits from various practices, and then focus in detail on empirical evidence concerning costs and barriers to adoption, both from household and project-level data.

Policy Interventions to Address Health Impacts Associated with Air Pollution, Unsafe Water Supply and Sanitation, and Hazardous Chemicals

Reviews the recent empirical literature relating to the quantification and valuation of the human health impacts of air pollution, hazardous chemicals, and unsafe water and sanitation, and their use in cost-benefit analysis, as an input to environmental policy decision-making in OECD countries.

Reviewing the Economic Efficiency of Disaster Risk Management

Review examines the evidence regarding the economic efficiency of DRM (Disaster Risk Management) based on CBA by exploring the methodological underpinnings including key omissions and challenges.

MEDIATION Project Briefing Notes 1-9: Methods Overview; Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; Robust Decision Making; Real Options Analysis; Portfolio Analysis; Multi-Criteria Analysis; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Social Network Analysis; and Adaptation Turning

The FP7 MEDIATION project has undertaken a detailed review of decision support tools, and has tested them in a series of case studies. It has assessed their applicability for adaptation and analysed how they consider uncertainty.

The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries

Paper discusses the economic theory of adaptation as well as the empirical adaptation literature with a focus on developing countries.

How Can Decision-makers in Developing Countries Incorporate Uncertainty About Future Climate Risks into Existing Planning and Policy-making Processes?

Paper outlines a set of simple, practical principles to give some guidance on how decision-makers in developing countries can incorporate uncertainty into existing policymaking and planning processes today.

Aggregate Economic Measures of Climate Change Damages: Explaining the Differences and Implications

Article outlines aggregate economic measures of damage from climate change and assesses the key assumptions and inputs in the estimates, and how these influence the aggregated results.

Economcis of Adaptation

Chapter assesses the literature on the economics of climate change adaptation, building on the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) and the increasing role that economic considerations are playing in adaptation decisionmaking and policy.

Investment Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty: Application to Climate Change

Paper summarizes the additional uncertainty that is created by climate change, and reviews the tools that are available to project climate change (including downscaling techniques) and to assess and quantify the corresponding uncertainty.

Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Projects

Guidance note presents various methodologies aimed at carrying out an economic evaluation of adaptation investments in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM), and provides some guidance in selecting the most suitable approach for the project under consideration.

Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention- Overview

Report suggests how natural disaster prevention measures and related spending could be identified and made effective.

A Cost Effective Solution to Reduce Disaster Losses in Developing Countries: Hydro-Meteorological Services, Early Warning, and Evacuation

The paper starts by investigating benefits from early warning systems in Europe, in terms of saved lives and reduced disaster asset losses. It then uses this evaluation to estimate the potential benefits of providing similar services in developing countries.

Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters in the Agriculture Sector: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report.

The report considered the role of development in exposure and vulnerability, the implications for disaster risk and DRM, and the interactions between extreme events, extreme impacts, and development. It examined how human responses to extreme events and disasters could contribute to adaptation objectives, and how adaptation to climate change could become better integrated with DRM practice.

Agriculture and Climate Change. Policy Brief. Main Issues for UNFCCC and Beyond

This policy brief is a condensed version of the Agriculture and Climate Change: A Scoping Report. This summary seeks to provide key points for policymakers focusing on the unique aspects of agriculture when considered in the context of climate change.

Volume 7: Measuring Natural Resources Management And Climate Change Resiliency Under Feed The Future

The Purpose of Measuring NRM and CC Adaptability under Feed the Future (FTF).

Water Security & the Global Water Agenda. A UN-Water Analytical Brief

This Analytical Brief serves as a starting point for dialogue on water security in the United Nations system.

Water, ecosystem services and nature: putting the 'green' into green economy

Summary of the results of the The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) - initiative.

Weather and Climate Resilience: Effective Preparedness through National Meteorological and Hydrological Services.

The report underscores the urgent need to strengthen National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, especially those in developing countries, and provides cost-benefit estimates of the return that countries can hope to achieve.

Costs of adaptation to climate change impacts on fresh-water systems: existing estimates and research gaps

Information on the cost of adaptation in freshwater systems is necessary to better design strategies to face climate change and water management. We look at the existing estimates with the aim of identifying research gaps. Our analysis shows that case study-specific literature is scarce, fragmented, and not always methodologically transparent.

Climate impacts on energy systems: key issues for energy sector adaptation

This report is intended as an up-to-date compendium of what is known about weather variability and projected climate trends and their impacts on energy service provision and demand. It discusses emerging practices and tools for managing these impacts and integrating climate considerations into planning processes and operational practices in an environment of uncertainty

Climate change, sea level rise, and coastal disasters. A review of modeling practices

This paper reviews the methodologies and the modeling practices used by the sea level rise literature.

Reconfiguring urban adaptation finance

This paper examines international, national and municipal mechanisms for financing adaptation, and reveals the systemic barriers that prevent money being channelled into the hands of low-income and highly vulnerable urban residents in low- and middle-income countries, and hinder effective urban adaptation

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