Dear Disaster- Resilience Colleagues,
welcome to your weADAPT update containing the latest research and practice on climate adaptation issues. This week we are featuring new research from Jon Ensor at the SEI York Centre and crowdsourcing local knowledge to enhance resilience on El Nino.
New! Drylands Resource Guide
weADAPT has partnered with the Adaptation at Scale in Semi Arid Regions consortium (ASSAR) to create a resource guide to assist researchers, the development community and policy makers to access the most up to date and relevant research resources for drylands and semi-arid regions.
This resource guide highlights some of the research and learning for these climate change hotspots, with annotations from ASSAR academics to help guide you to the most relevant and useful information for your work. If you would like to submit content to the resource guide, you are welcome to do so, and we encourage feedback on the resources in order to refine the guide.
Please get in touch if you would like to manage a new thematic area like the Drylands theme, build a networking space or have your research included in the next newsletter. Register on weADAPT to share an article or case study, as other contributors below have done.
Kind regards,
The weADAPT Team @ SEI in Oxford
Adaptation and resilience in Vanuatu: Interpreting community perceptions of vulnerability, knowledge and power for CBA programming
Added to the Global Initiative on Community Based Adaptation (GICBA) Network by Jonathan Ensor from Stockholm Environment Institute
This report documents findings from fieldwork aimed at contextualizing the resilience-building work of the Vanuatu NGO Climate Change Adaptation Program and linking it to the academic literature.
Read the complete Article on weADAPT
Utilising Crowdsourced Knowledge to Enhance Resilience to El Nino
Added to the Innovative ICTs for Communicating Climate Risk Theme by Amy Barthorpe from WeFarm
WeFarm's free SMS service enables farmers to receive locally relevant, crowdsourced information from other farmers without having to leave their farm or invest any money.
Read the complete Article on weADAPT
Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP)
Added to the Transforming Development and Disaster Risk Theme by Julian Tangermann and Sieun Lee
Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy is a project that aims to contribute to the global knowledge base on the relationship between migration and environmental change.
Read the complete Article on weADAPT
EcoAdapt: Creating and Sharing New Knowledge Through Joint Learning on Water Governance and Climate Change Adaptation
Added to the EcoAdapt Network by Alejandra Real, Gregoire Leclerc, Raffaele Vignola, Mariela Morales, Monica Coll Besa and Tahia Devisscher
This Occasional Paper presents the results of the EcoAdapt Project, a joint undertaking by four research and five civil society organizations from Europe and Latin America.
Read the complete Article on weADAPT
Proud of my Purok: Reducing floods and land slides in the Agusan Delta, Philippines
Added to the Ecosystem-based Adaptation Theme by Sven Harmeling and Susanna Tol
This animation shows an integrated disaster risk reduction approach in which care for people and nature goes hand in hand.
Read the complete Case Study on weADAPT
