A7_S1.pdf
A7_S1.pdf A7_S1.pdf Rapid Assessment on Climate Change Risk
CCAI pilot site: Champhone, Savannakhet, Lao PDR
Session 1: Background and introduction to climate change risk assessment
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Rapid Assessment on Climate Change Risk
CCAI pilot site: Champone, Savannakhet, Lao PDR
Objectives
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Understanding on climate change and risk assessment concept
Understand climate change scenarios for Lao PDR
Set indicators for climate risk at the study site
Practice exercise on using data from climate change scenario in risk
assessment
• Practice exercise on using data from future hydrological change in
risk assessment
• Prepare risk map for CCAI pilot site
How to conduct climate change risk assessment with limited dataset
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Area-based climate change risk assessment for
Climate change adaptation
Forewords:
• Conventional climate change impact assessment and adaptation
planning is based on sector by sector approach
• Climate change impact, vulnerability and adaptation are place
and time specific
• Climate change cannot be taken as isolation issue from other
issues in the area
• Adaptation is about the people and society is much more
dynamic than change in climate system
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Being prepared for climate change :
If adaptation is the answer, what is the question?
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