Module 01
Climate Vulnerability Assessment
Who and what is actually exposed to a changing climate, and how well they can cope with it - the groundwork every adaptation decision depends on.
Foundation8 lectures5h of materialFree · self-paced
What you will cover
- Hazard, exposure & sensitivity
- Reading climate risk data
- Vulnerability indicators
- Ground-truthing an assessment
Module contents
4 of 8 completed
Why vulnerability is not the same as riskThe three-part model behind every serious climate risk assessment, and why treating vulnerability as a stand-alone problem gets the diagnosis wrong before the work even starts.Video35 minQuiz passed · 100%Written to doHazard, exposure and sensitivity: the three inputsWhat each of the three inputs to a vulnerability assessment actually measures, and the data source a Sri Lankan officer can realistically get for each one.Reading40 minQuiz not passed · 50%Reading Sri Lanka's climate hazard dataWhere the country's actual hazard data lives, what each dataset is and is not good for, and the mistake that makes an assessment quietly wrong.Video40 minQuiz passed · 100%Written to doBuilding a vulnerability indexCombining sensitivity and adaptive-capacity indicators into one score without hiding the decisions that went into it.Reading35 minQuiz to takeAssessing adaptive capacityYou are hereWhat actually predicts whether a household or an institution can respond to a shock, and why income alone is a weak proxy for it.Video35 minGround-truthing a desk assessmentWhy a desk-based vulnerability assessment has to be checked against a site visit, and how to run one that a small team can complete in days, not months.Reading40 minPresenting findings to decision-makersTurning an assessment into a briefing a busy official will actually read and act on, rather than a report that gets filed.Video40 minFrom assessment to actionHanding a finished assessment to the planning process it exists to feed, and keeping it from becoming a document nobody opens again.Reading35 min