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Metrics and Indicators to Assess Adaptation

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dc.creator Price, Roz
dc.date 2022-05-09T10:29:46Z
dc.date 2022-05-09T10:29:46Z
dc.date 2022-03-08
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:55:48Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:55:48Z
dc.identifier Price, R.A. (2022). Metrics and indicators to assess adaptation. K4D Helpdesk Report 1101. Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/K4D.2022.050
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17385
dc.identifier 10.19088/K4D.2022.050
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/199170
dc.description The field of climate change adaptation metrics is complex and fast-changing. Given the highly contextual nature of adaptation and the array of applied definitions of adaptation and “success”, there is no single global set of adaptation metrics and indicators or definition of adaptation success. There is a burgeoning literature on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), how to measure it and adaptation metrics. However, the landscape is scattered and the subject is very complex. Climate impacts and the effects of adaptation measures themselves spill across national borders, although adaptation is still treated as a largely domestic issue despite the global rhetoric of the GGA. This makes an aggregate global goal extremely technically challenging and tracing the plethora of existing indicators and metrics difficult. Furthermore, there is relatively few specific literature directly on the topic of global measurement of adaptation. This rapid review provides information on some of the metrics and measurement approaches in use across national and sub-national government levels. It gives a brief discussion of the issues around measuring the GGA, flags some key resources in this area and also touches on some initiatives and guidance aimed at helping users to select metrics. This is not a systematic review and given the time limitations and the number of adaptation metrics approaches in use, it is only able to provide a small snapshot of current research.
dc.description Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
dc.language en
dc.publisher The Institute of Development Studies
dc.relation K4D Helpdesk Report;1101
dc.rights https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
dc.rights © Crown copyright 2022
dc.subject Climate Change
dc.title Metrics and Indicators to Assess Adaptation
dc.type Helpdesk


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