Dear Colleague,

Welcome to your weADAPT update!

In addition to our featured content below, find hundreds of interesting articles and case studies, sharing lessons learned from around the world.   If you would like to share your own work with others, to support learning and knowledge sharing amongst the adaptation community, please login and follow this simple guidance.

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Help pilot a navigator of tools for ecosystem-based adaptation
NEP-WCMC, IIED, IUCN and GIZ are seeking feedback on a new navigator that catalogues tools for ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) planners and practitioners. The EbA Tool Navigator features information on more than 230 EbA tools, methodologies and guidance documents.  The Navigator has now been released in pilot form, and the developers are encouraging EbA practitioners and planners to explore and test its usefulness for their own work. Feedback is welcome on the Navigator’s design and functions, suggestions on additional tools or user experiences, and on how EbA tools can be made more accessible to those who need them. Find out more here.
 

Get involved in a design study - Tools for People
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design is conducting a study of climate information ‘tools’ to support designers and organisations in this field. The study will provide an overview of the current state of climate information ‘tools’, visualise best practices, and identify key challenges for the design community to continue exploring. The study will be disseminated widely and support designers and tool developers in adaptation globally. They're looking for 10 tools to be featured as case studies. Find out more here.
 
In case you missed them -  weADAPT design updates for 2019 
Check out our new search facility to better help you filter weADAPT search results. We have also been busy updating the design of our Discussion Forums!  These are all works in progress and we welcome your feedback on how to improve them. You can provide feedback here or email us at info@weadapt.org. ....and a climate services survey
The SEI initiative on climate services is conducting a short survey of resources that are valuable for developing, supporting and using climate services. As a thank you to all those who fill out this 5-minute survey, we will include an article from each respondent on their ongoing adaptation work in a weADAPT newsletter in 2019!*
  
Need your own project or network website?
If you need to create your own website for a project, network or community of research/practice, check out our Microsites feature, which enables you to do this, whilst accessing all the features and content within weADAPT at the same time :-)  You can find out more and register your interest here (please note that this is not a free service).

Happy exploring!

From the weADAPT team :-)

* this requires completion of the survey and that the respondent uploads their article content. weADAPT reserves the right to exclude content on the basis of relevance and/or quality. We commit to including content in the newsletter from the first 40 survey respondents. After this, submissions will be considered as usual, alongside other submissions from across the adaptation community.
 

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When adaptation barriers and enablers intersect: Key considerations for adaptation planning drawn from ASSAR’s findings

This report highlights findings of the interactions between barriers and enablers in four semi-arid regions, and how these interactions shape the underlying conditions for adaptation action.
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Low Carbon Resilience: Best Practices For Professionals

This project focused on the key role professionals play as change agents in climate action, and what is needed for all sectors to advance uptake of low carbon resilience based practices.
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Bringing rights into resilience: revealing complexities of climate risks and social conflict

This paper takes a rights-based approach to understand how cultural, political and social norms and practices influence resilience.
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Safeguarding NDC Implementation: Building resilience into energy systems

This short brief aims to enhance awareness and highlight the importance of integrating weather and climate-related risk into the planning stages of energy infrastructure development.
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The PLACARD Connectivity Hub: A new ‘search and discovery’ tool for CCA and DRR

The PLACARD Connectivity Hub is a dynamic and interactive online tool for exploring the topic-specific knowledge networks on CCA and DRR, including articles, authors, topics and organisations.
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