RESEARCHERS & TECHNICIANS

Who this page is for

This entry point is for researchers, consultants, engineers and technical staff in authorities and utilities — the people who will carry out the assessment rather than commission or approve it, and who need to know what was done, with what, and where the method is written down.

The guide is written to be applied rather than cited. Each method page states what the method establishes, what it requires as input, and what it cannot do, and each is linked to the public deliverable in which it is documented in full. The scientific publications produced by the project are collected separately, and they carry the detail that a guide of this kind has to leave out.

The methods

SO 1: Methodological assessment contains the assessment framework: how an area is characterized, how rapid-onset and slow-onset hazards are modelled, how the counterfactual is defined, how costs and damages are established, how co-benefits are valued, and how the result is presented at demonstration level.

SO 2: Operationalization and integration contains the methods for working with people and across disciplines: adaptive planning, integrative modelling, the multi-criteria toolkit, participatory modelling, stakeholder engagement, and public participation.

Models and tools list the instruments themselves, separated into those the project developed and those it applied. The publications carry the peer-reviewed account of the work.

Where the detail is

Every method in this guide is documented in full in a public deliverable of the project, and the deliverable is linked from the page that describes it. Where a method was published in a journal, the paper is listed under publications and links to the article.

The demonstration areas are documented individually, each with the hazard it faces, the measures assessed and the arrangement proposed. They are the reference for how the methods were combined in practice, and the differences between them are as instructive as the similarities: the same framework produced different arrangements in a delta city, a Mediterranean catchment and an agricultural aquifer because the institutions and the markets differ.