Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

Effective action on resilience and climate change adaptation can be a complex task—requiring coordinated efforts from the highest levels of government to individual households and firms. The Adaptation Principles offer a guide to effective climate change adaptation, containing hands-on guidance to t...

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Main Authors: Hallegatte, Stephane, Rentschler, Jun, Rozenberg, Julie
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/546611605298449211/The-Adaptation-Principles-A-Guide-for-Designing-Strategies-for-Climate-Change-Adaptation-and-Resilience
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spelling okr-10986-347802021-05-25T10:54:42Z Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Hallegatte, Stephane Rentschler, Jun Rozenberg, Julie INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION CLIMATE RESILIENCE SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT LAND USE NATURAL DISASTER DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT MACROFISCAL ISSUE CLIMATE SHOCK INCLUSIVE GROWTH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER VULNERABLE POPULATION ACCESS TO FINANCE PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE HYDROMET EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS INSURANCE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ADAPTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION CONTINGENCY PLANNING DISASTER MITIGATION Effective action on resilience and climate change adaptation can be a complex task—requiring coordinated efforts from the highest levels of government to individual households and firms. The Adaptation Principles offer a guide to effective climate change adaptation, containing hands-on guidance to the design, implementation and monitoring of national adaptation strategies. It specifies six guiding principles, which correspond to common policy domains: 1) Ensuring resilient foundations through rapid and inclusive development; 2) Facilitating the adaptation of firms and people; 3) Adapting land use and protecting critical public assets and services; 4) Increasing people’s capacity to cope with and recover from shocks; 5) Anticipating and managing macroeconomic and fiscal risks; 6) Ensuring effective implementation through prioritization and continuous monitoring. While outlining these universal Adaptation Principles, this guide shows that each country needs to tailor these actions to its specific needs and priorities. To guide this process, Adaptation Principles offers concrete and practical tools: Screening questions to identify the most urgent and effective actions, toolboxes illustrating common datasets and methodologies to support decisions, indicators to monitor and evaluate progress, and case studies on how the COVID-19 pandemic influences priorities in taking effective adaptation action. 2020-11-13T21:32:22Z 2020-11-13T21:32:22Z 2020-11-17 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/546611605298449211/The-Adaptation-Principles-A-Guide-for-Designing-Strategies-for-Climate-Change-Adaptation-and-Resilience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34780 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Environmental Study
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topic INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT
LAND USE
NATURAL DISASTER
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
MACROFISCAL ISSUE
CLIMATE SHOCK
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
VULNERABLE POPULATION
ACCESS TO FINANCE
PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE
HYDROMET
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
INSURANCE
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
ADAPTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION
CONTINGENCY PLANNING
DISASTER MITIGATION
spellingShingle INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT
LAND USE
NATURAL DISASTER
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
MACROFISCAL ISSUE
CLIMATE SHOCK
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
VULNERABLE POPULATION
ACCESS TO FINANCE
PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE
HYDROMET
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
INSURANCE
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
ADAPTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION
CONTINGENCY PLANNING
DISASTER MITIGATION
Hallegatte, Stephane
Rentschler, Jun
Rozenberg, Julie
Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
description Effective action on resilience and climate change adaptation can be a complex task—requiring coordinated efforts from the highest levels of government to individual households and firms. The Adaptation Principles offer a guide to effective climate change adaptation, containing hands-on guidance to the design, implementation and monitoring of national adaptation strategies. It specifies six guiding principles, which correspond to common policy domains: 1) Ensuring resilient foundations through rapid and inclusive development; 2) Facilitating the adaptation of firms and people; 3) Adapting land use and protecting critical public assets and services; 4) Increasing people’s capacity to cope with and recover from shocks; 5) Anticipating and managing macroeconomic and fiscal risks; 6) Ensuring effective implementation through prioritization and continuous monitoring. While outlining these universal Adaptation Principles, this guide shows that each country needs to tailor these actions to its specific needs and priorities. To guide this process, Adaptation Principles offers concrete and practical tools: Screening questions to identify the most urgent and effective actions, toolboxes illustrating common datasets and methodologies to support decisions, indicators to monitor and evaluate progress, and case studies on how the COVID-19 pandemic influences priorities in taking effective adaptation action.
format Report
author Hallegatte, Stephane
Rentschler, Jun
Rozenberg, Julie
author_facet Hallegatte, Stephane
Rentschler, Jun
Rozenberg, Julie
author_sort Hallegatte, Stephane
title Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
title_short Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
title_full Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
title_fullStr Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
title_full_unstemmed Adaptation Principles : A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
title_sort adaptation principles : a guide for designing strategies for climate change adaptation and resilience
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/546611605298449211/The-Adaptation-Principles-A-Guide-for-Designing-Strategies-for-Climate-Change-Adaptation-and-Resilience
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