In this lecture
- Distinguish coping capacity from adaptive capacity
- Identify institutional as well as household capacity
- Avoid income as the sole indicator
Capacity is not just money
A household with savings still fails to adapt if it has no information about the hazard or no access to the institutions that could help it. This lecture works through the non-financial capacities that predict recovery as reliably as income does, using two households with identical earnings and very different outcomes.
Institutions have capacity too
A divisional secretariat's adaptive 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 is missing half the picture.
Materials
Yours to keep, and usable away from the platform.
- Adaptive capacity indicator setWorksheet · 96 KB
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Lecture quiz
4 questions, plus 2 written questions at the end - taken whenever you are ready. This is what unlocks the next lecture.