Assessing costs and benefits of climate change adaptation

• Main Author: Dasgupta, Purnamita
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: HI-AWARE Consortium Secretariat 2016
• Subjects: CLIMATE-RELATED RISKS; LITERATURE REVIEW; HINDU KUSH HIMALAYAN (HKH) REGION; GLACIERS; GLACIER REDUCTION; BASIN RIVER FLOODS; ASIAN MONSOON; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; HYDROLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITIES; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS (SRES); Canada; glacier*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10625/57499

This work was carried out by the Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) consortium under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) with financial support from the UK Government’s Department for International Development and the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. This paper provides a review of existing studies of the region and an assessment of climate-related risks for different climate change scenarios. This is an essential step towards understanding what adaptation measures are required in the region, and how effective these are likely to be, including their cost effectiveness. Risk has been defined in various ways in the literature. Risks for disaster contexts typically refer to the likelihood of severe alterations in normal functioning traceable to a hazardous event, when physical hazards combine with socioeconomic vulnerabilities and lead to widespread adverse outcomes.