05. Assessing adaptive capacity

Lecture quiz

Quiz - Assessing adaptive capacity

Climate Vulnerability Assessment. Unlimited attempts, no timer, and one pass mark for the whole platform - applied the same way to the 2 written questions below the multiple choice.

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  1. 1. Why does a national hazard dataset need care when used at divisional scale?

    • It is usually inaccurate
    • Its resolution was built for a coarser comparisonCorrect
    • It excludes rainfall data
    • It is updated too rarely to use

    A national map is built to compare provinces, not to site a specific culvert. Using it at finer scale borrows a precision the data never had.

  2. 2. What is the purpose of a field verification visit?

    • To collect data for the first time
    • To check a desk-based assessment against realityCorrect
    • To replace the vulnerability index entirely
    • To satisfy a funder's reporting requirement

    A desk-based index is a hypothesis about a place. A short, structured field visit is what turns that hypothesis into an assessment somebody can act on.

  3. 3. Risk is usually described as the combination of three things. Which set is it?

    • Hazard, exposure and vulnerabilityCorrect
    • Temperature, rainfall and sea level
    • Probability, cost and time
    • Mitigation, adaptation and finance

    A hazard on its own creates no risk. Risk appears when something is exposed to it and is unable to absorb the effect.

  4. 4. What does exposure measure that vulnerability does not?

    • How much damage an event causes
    • Where something sits relative to a hazardCorrect
    • How quickly a community recovers
    • The cost of an adaptation measure

    Exposure is a location question - what sits in the hazard's path - independent of how well that thing can absorb the impact, which is what vulnerability measures.

Written questions

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  1. 1. In two or three sentences: why is income alone a weak proxy for adaptive capacity?

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    Model answer: A household with savings can still fail to adapt if it has no information about the hazard or no access to the institutions that could help it. Adaptive capacity depends on these non-financial factors as much as income.

  2. 2. In two or three sentences: why does an assessment need to measure institutional capacity, not just household capacity?

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    Model answer: A divisional secretariat's own capacity - its staffing, its early-warning links, its access to contingency funds - shapes every household's outcome inside its boundary. An assessment that measures only households and never the institution around them misses half the picture.