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Climate Change Adaptation Governance Indicators
Donovan Burton
Climate Planning
Climate Planning Specialist
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Planning for the impacts of climate change is a complex and challenging issue. Solutions can only be driven through informed decision-making and to date there is little evidence to suggest that this is occurring in any meaningful way in most of the cities around the world. For local and city…
Book Review "The Troubled Rhetoric and Communication of Climate Change"
Dennis Bours
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For the summer period I'll be posting a number of book reviews on Climate-Eval. This week, two books ended up on my desk, begging to be read. The first one being Philip Eubanks' book titled …
Triple Objectives: Sustainable Development, Climate Change Mitigation, and Climate Change Adaptation
Debora Ley
USAID Central America Regional Clean Energy Initiative
Renewable Energy Expert
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Rural communities throughout Latin America are increasingly suffering the impacts of climate change and few policies exist to…
The Urban Adaptation Assessment (UAA) Framework: Three Levels of Analysis
Chen Chen
Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index
Research Scientist
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Continuing its effort at the country level to measure climate vulnerability and measure readiness to accept adaptation investment, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) now starts down-scaling…
Communicating Evaluation to Non-Evaluators
Simon Hearn
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Research Fellow
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This blog was originally posted on BetterEvaluation by Simon Hearn and the original post can be found…
Climate-Eval Good Practice Study on Principles for Indicator Development, Selection, and Use in Climate Change Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation
Dennis Bours
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It is with a sense of pride that I present to you the final report of the Climate-Eval Good Practice Study on Principles for Indicator Development, Selection, and Use in Climate Change Adaptation…
Dissecting the Resilience Adaptation Transformation Assessment and Learning Framework (RATALF)
Dennis Bours
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The concepts of "resilience", "adaptation" and "transformation" have captured the attention of the global policy community, and are being translated into aspirational goals that guide policy development. Understanding resilience, adaptation and transformation of agro-ecosystems is critical to…
Sustainability as Evaluative Minefield; on Systems Perspectives and the IDEAS General Assembly 2015
Rob D. Van Den Berg
International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS)
President
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It is a great pleasure to return to Climate-Eval and contribute a blog on an issue that should be music in your ears! As President of the International Development Evaluation Association (…
The Answer is 42. On Data, Information and Knowledge
Dennis Bours
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A recent discussion with some colleagues on the differences between data, knowledge and information made me realize that there still is a lot of confusion when it comes to the use of terms; confusion that goes well beyond my earlier blog post…
Protected Areas: PADDD and Poor Governance go Hand-in-hand
Najeeb Khan
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There are various ways of defining protected areas. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) defines protected area (PA) as "a…