Climate Vulnerability Assessment

Lecture 06

Ground-truthing a desk assessment

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

    Desk data is a hypothesis

    A composite index built entirely from national datasets is a hypothesis about a place, not a description of it. A short field visit - a walk-through, a handful of household conversations, a look at what has already flooded - is what turns the hypothesis into an assessment somebody can act on.

  2. Block 2 · text

    Two days, one ward, real answers

    A verification visit does not need to be exhaustive to be useful. A structured half-day per ward, checking the two or three indicators the desk data was least confident about, catches most of the divergence a full re-survey would find at a fraction of the cost.

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