Measuring flood risks in Mozambique for the purpose of program evaluation
Working with the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development, the adelphi Consult, and the Catholic University of Mozambique, ND-GAIN…
Private sector’s wish-list for climate risk data
Funded by a two-year Partnership Development Grant from Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, McGill University-based Adaptation Tracking Collaborative gathers partners from Wageningen University, UCLA, and ND-GAIN to develop conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches…
Putting a Value on Climate Adaptation
The Paris Climate Agreement put climate adaptation squarely on the climate agenda when it established a global goal to “enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change.”…
The Urban Adaptation Assessment (UAA) Framework: Three Levels of Analysis
Continuing its effort at the country level to measure climate vulnerability and measure readiness to accept adaptation investment, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) now starts down-scaling the…
Measuring Country Resilience
To measure countries’ resilience to rebound from adverse impacts of climate change, ND-GAIN focuses on the adaptive capacities of five sectors that provide communities with life-supporting assets and social services: Food Water Public health Ecosystem service
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