Climate Vulnerability Assessment

Lecture 04

Building a vulnerability index

PublishedReading lectureWritten by Malika Ratnayake

Content

In the order a learner meets it. Each block is a separate thing to write, and their order is the lecture's argument.

  1. Block 1 · text

    An index is a compression, not a discovery

    Every composite score throws information away on purpose, in exchange for something that ranks. The value of a vulnerability index is entirely in whether the compression was done honestly - indicators that do not double-count the same underlying condition, and weights that are stated rather than buried in a spreadsheet.

  2. Block 2 · text

    Publish the components, not just the score

    Two districts scoring 0.6 can need opposite interventions if one result is driven by income and the other by distance from a hospital. An index published with its component indicators lets a planner see which one; an index published alone does not.

Attached materials

What the learner downloads. Everything here comes off the shared library, so one file can serve six lectures and be replaced once.

  • Index-building worksheet

    Spreadsheet · 140 KB · uploaded straight onto this lecture

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  • Worked example - district index

    PDF · 620 KB · uploaded straight onto this lecture

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Lecture quiz

4 questions close this lecture. The pass mark is 70% and is set once for the whole platform. It also carries 2 written questions - a learner has to clear both to move on.

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