Pacific Region RCSD Assessment Worksheet
Use this form to add or update a climate assessment to Piko (Worsheet Version June 2012)
Acronym
Name/Title
Pacific RISA Hazards and Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
Lead Agencies, Institutions and Organizations
Pacific RISA
Contacts(names, emails)
Victoria Keener ,KeenerV@EastWestCenter.org, Lead Investigator
Partnering Agencies, Institutions, and Organizations
UH SSRI, UH SLC, IPRC, NOAA PEAC, NOAA NWS, UOG, USGS, USDA NRCS
Assessment Type
Climate Science
Needs And Capabilities
Needs
Capacity
Capabilities
Risk and Vulnerability or Problem-focused
Area of Applicability
International and National
National and Regional
Regional/Local or Problem-focused
Focus Area
Fresh Water Resources and Drought
Coastal Inundation/Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Community Resilience
Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Region/Locale
Central North Pacific
State of Hawaii
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Remote Islands
Western North Pacific
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
Guam
Republic of Palau
Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI)
Other Western North Pacific
South Pacific
American Samoa
Australia
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Other South Pacific
Pacific Basin
Global
Focus Area
Completed
Ongoing
Planned
Proposed
Description
This project will help communities to incorporate Climate Risk Assessments into Multi-Hazard Risk Assessments. Hazard risk and vulnerability assessments (RVA), specifically for climate related risks, have been established as an interdisciplinary methodology that underpins the development of disaster risk-reduction plans. The Pacific RISA will review existing disaster risk-reduction plans and assist island governments in updating these plans with the best available climate-related knowledge. Pursued simultaneously, a second component of the RVA involves identifying critical facilities, infrastructure and lifelines; economic infrastructure and employment characteristics; ecosystems that aid in protection; and characteristics of local populations. We will inventory adaptive capacities including: availability of resources, sustainable financing for projects, alternative livelihoods, ecosystem management, institutional frameworks, legal and regulatory instruments, governance, policy implementation, and sector-specific, local, and indigenous knowledge systems. Pacific RISA will develop scenario-planning methods to improve adaptation. Following the baseline characterization of community exposure and resilience, the information can be linked with different hazard risk scenarios that are based on different climate change projections.
Url
http://www.pacificrisa.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=256&Itemid=174
Keywords
Needs And Capabilities Risk and Vulnerability or Problem-focused Capabilities Capacity Regional/Local or Problem-focused Coastal Inundation/Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Community Resilience Central North Pacific State of Hawaii Western North Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Guam Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) American Samoa South Pacific Completed
Worksheet
Assessment-PacRISA_HCRVA.doc