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MainDBDraft: Watershed Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments in the Greater Mekong Subregion

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Watershed Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments in the Greater Mekong Subregion

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Asia

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Policy makers; Practitioners

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Date of submission

01/07/2020

Further information

http://www.gms-eoc.org/uploads/resources/1266/attachment/WVAA-Guidelines%E2%80%8B-Climate-Change-Practitioners-web.pdf

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Stockholm Environment Institute

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Greater Mekong Subregion

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Local; National; Subregional; Transboundary

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Water resources

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These regional guidelines on watershed-scale vulnerability and adaptation assessments (W-VAAs) are the product of a multiyear collaboration among the following institutions: GMS Core Environment Program; The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Mekong Region Futures Institute (MERFI); United States Agency for International Development Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (USAID Mekong ARCC) project; United States Forest Service (USFS); Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET); Thailand Environment Institute (TEI); Southeast Asia START Regional Center (SEA START RC); Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.

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Civil society

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The climate hazards this tool addresses are an interaction between climate and non-climate stressors. Stage in adaptation policy cycle: Ideally, it would influence AD policy as well as sectoral investments and decisions re: land use, water allocation and management.

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Spatial scale: Watersheds to Basin Specific geographic region: Greater Mekong subregion This watershed approach is cross-sectoral

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Technical document/report

Description

The guidelines synthesize the shared knowledge and experience of the roundtable partners in developing frameworks for vulnerability and adaptation assessments (VAAs) and implementing them in the GMS over the past decade. Specifically, these guidelines incorporate the direct experience of recent projects that have used watersheds as an organizing element for climate-change VAAs.

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