ECA Case Studies
The DownloadEconomics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) methodology (PDF, 6 MB) (infograph below) and its implementation in the external pageopen-source CLIMADA platform – developed by the Weather and Climate Risks Group since 2009 – provides decision makers with a fact base to develop an adaptation strategy. The WCR group will build on these ECA case studies and continue to engage with stakeholders worldwide and the external pageECA network to study new cases and further develop and refine the approach.
Economics of climate adaptation (ECA) studies have since 2009 been carried out for:
- DownloadECA Vietnam, Compound Flood Risk and Heat Waves (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- DownloadECA Ethiopia, Afar & Somali Drought Risk (PDF, 835 KB)
- DownloadECA Honduras, San Pedro Sula Urban Flood Risk (PDF, 869 KB)
- DownloadCLIMADA Climate Risk Analysis, Urban flood resilience against riverine floods in Uganda and Nigeria (PDF, 938 KB)
- DownloadCLIMADA Climate Risk Analysis, Coastal Protection in Vietnam, Tropical Cyclone Risk (PDF, 1013 KB)
- external pageSan Salvador, El Salvador: focus on urban risks from flood and landslides, Downloadfurther study (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- external pageBarisal, Bangladesh: focus on urban risks from flood, monsoon and storm surge. DownloadCommunication material (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- external pageCity of New York: focus on urban infrastructure resilience against storm surge
- *City of Hull, UK: focus on risk from multiple hazards (wind, inland flood, storm surge) on page 100
- *Miami and South Florida, USA: focus on risk from hurricanes on page 105
- *North and North East China: focus on drought risk to agriculture on page 74
- *Maharashtra, India: focus on drought risk to agriculture on page 81
- *Mopti region, Mali: focus on risk to agriculture from climate zone shift on page 86
- *Georgetown, Guyana: focus on risk to urban infrastructure from flash floods on page 93
- *Samoa: focus on risks caused by sea level rise, storm surge and groundwater salination on page 110
- *Tanzania: focus on health and power risks caused by drought on page 115
- external pageCaribbean: Multi-hazard and sector studies in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia and in Dominica. Ecosystem-based adaptation in DownloadBarbados (PDF, 5.9 MB)
- DownloadEnergy sector study along the US Gulf Coast (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas) (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- US Gulf coast, ecosystem value in risk reduction – jointly with TNC, online tool external pagehere.
- DownloadA summary of case studies with a focus on coastal communities (PDF, 3 MB)
- DownloadA summary of case studies with a focus on infrastructure (PDF, 2.9 MB)
- DownloadAn example of communicating a kind of summary of a batch of studies (PDF, 1.4 MB)
- DownloadAn example of embedding ECA studies in the wider climate narrative (PDF, 1.1 MB)
*Further information for these studies can also be found in Download“Shaping climate resilient development – a framework for decision-making” by the ECA group, 2009. (PDF, 6 MB)
Above studies have been powered by CLIMADA - the open-source Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) tool:
Using state-of-the-art probabilistic modelling, CLIMADA allows to estimate the expected economic damage as a measure of risk today, the incremental increase from economic growth and the further incremental increase due to climate change. The economics of climate adaptation methodology as implemented in CLIMADA provides decision makers with a fact base to understand the impact of weather and climate on their economies, including cost/benefit perspectives on specific risk reduction measures.
Please find some animations illustrating the external pagecore CLIMADA engine as follows:
