community-based adaptation

How accountability enables locally-led adaptation: driving the quality of climate finance

Past event / This session brings together stakeholders involved in climate finance to explore novel approaches to accountability.

Assessing cascading effects from multiple hazards: an example from Sweden

SEI brief / This brief provides an overview of methods and tools and a summary of their application in a Swedish case study in the HydroHazards project.

Adaptation without borders: strengthening cooperation to manage cross border climate risks

Past event / This event explored the implications of cross-border risks for adaptation planning at national, regional and global scales.

FIRE: A framework for integrating human rights and gender equality in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Journal article / The Framework for Integrating Rights and Equality (FIRE) builds synergies between human rights-based and gender equality approaches to disaster risk reduction.

Questioning the scientific feasibility and policy relevance of assessing transboundary climate risks

Perspective / Climate policies must be better prepared to deal with transboundary climate risks resulting from the cascading effects of both climate hazards and adaptation.

Radical collaboration needed for climate adaptation

Media coverage / Researchers seek to support families to adapt to climate change.

Barriers to women’s participation, leadership, and empowerment in community-managed water and sanitation in rural Bolivia

Journal article / This study is one of the first to assess the relationship between women's empowerment and participation in community-managed water and sanitation.

Testing the impact chain model: exploring social vulnerability to multiple hazards and cascading effects

SEI brief / The project brief shows how the impact chain method can be used to explore social vulnerability to multiple hydrometeorological hazards and cascading effects.

Weather, wealth and well-being: cascading effects of water-related hazards and social vulnerability in Halmstad, Sweden

SEI brief / The authors propose using current municipal assessments as a starting point to better understand social vulnerability to weather-related disasters.