A risk management approach to decision making in the Caribbean

Firth John; Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) - CCCCC, 2012

This knowledge brief addresses the Caribbean community's concern about the impacts of climate change and the importance of implementing a risk management approach in the region. It encourages Caribbean countries to begin a transformational approach by piloting projects in disaster risk reduction, coastal zone management, and national strategic and budgetary planning. The brief describes an implementation plan that promotes a culture of risk assessment and management in order to guide government decision makers through the perplexity of environmental, social and economic challenges that lie alo ...

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 A risk management approach to decision making in the Caribbean

  Available online: http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/5Cs-CDKN-Risk-Management-Brief_june20 [...]

John Firth ; Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

Published by: CCCCC ; 2012

This knowledge brief addresses the Caribbean community's concern about the impacts of climate change and the importance of implementing a risk management approach in the region. It encourages Caribbean countries to begin a transformational approach by piloting projects in disaster risk reduction, coastal zone management, and national strategic and budgetary planning. The brief describes an implementation plan that promotes a culture of risk assessment and management in order to guide government decision makers through the perplexity of environmental, social and economic challenges that lie alongside the challenges of reducing the effects of climate change.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)

Tags: Climate ; Hazard risk assessment or analysis ; Climate change ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Climate policies ; Adaptation ; Region IV - North America, Central America and the Caribbean ; Region III - South America Add tag

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CCORAL: Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation Tool

CCCCC

The Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation Tool (CCORAL) outlines a step-by-step process to identify if an activity, such as a project, programme, strategy, plan, policy or legislation, is influenced by, or vulnerable to, climate change. CCORAL then creates pathways for the identification and implementation of adaptation and mitigation options.

CCORAL provides information both at the regional and country level. However, only the CARICOM countries can currently be selected individually when using CCORAL, although CCCCC emphasizes that it is possible to expand the tool to co ...

English

 CCORAL: Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation Tool

 Available online: http://ccoral.caribbeanclimate.bz/

Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

Published by: CCCCC

The Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation Tool (CCORAL) outlines a step-by-step process to identify if an activity, such as a project, programme, strategy, plan, policy or legislation, is influenced by, or vulnerable to, climate change. CCORAL then creates pathways for the identification and implementation of adaptation and mitigation options.

CCORAL provides information both at the regional and country level. However, only the CARICOM countries can currently be selected individually when using CCORAL, although CCCCC emphasizes that it is possible to expand the tool to cover non-CARICOM Caribbean countries such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital

Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Caribbean ; Antigua and Barbuda ; Bahamas ; Belize ; Barbados ; Dominica ; Guyana ; Haiti ; Jamaica ; Saint Kitts and Nevis ; Saint Lucia ; Suriname ; Trinidad and Tobago ; Grenada ; Montserrat ; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Add tag

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