Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels
Social development papers, social dimensions of climate change, no. 116:
This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study and offers emerging findings on policy and institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.
The paper outlines the methodological approach of the social component of the World Bank’s Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change study, which features both village-level investigations of vulnerability and adaptive capacity, and innovative, participatory scenario-development approaches that lead diverse groups at local and national levels through structured discussions using GIS-based visualization tools to examine trade-offs and preferences among adaptation activities and implementation mechanisms.