Regional Knowledge Network on Water

R-KNOW Knowledge Database is operated by means of mobilising and developing the stakeholders qualified in their field in each pilot country. This is the duty of each national facilitator. R-KNOW KD brings:

  • Lessons learned of successful demo projects applying systemic approaches to water management
  • Knowledge, insights and awareness on systemic approaches to sustainable water resource management
  • Guiding papers on systemic approaches that could be applied to Natural Resources Management

A Guiding Toolkit for Increasing Climate Change Resilience

Climate change

Description

To build climate resilience at the country or basin level, policy makers must figure out how to integrate success stories from local level project implementation into more strategic planning instruments at broader scales. This remains one of the crucial challenges of adaptation. Adaptation based solely on prioritisation of discrete actions – for example on infrastructure, institutions, or ecosystems – may lead to missed opportunities to build resilience towards a dynamically changing climate, where uncertainty and unknowns are expanding. This is where adaptive governance capacity – that is, the ability to apply adaptation measures in practice from community to national and basin scale – is key. In turn, adaptive governance capacity is the result of a host of assets such as local knowledge, access to resources, leadership, mobilisation, and financing

Geographical coverage

Egypt Jordan Lebanon Morocco Palestinian Territory, Occupied

Keywords

Climate Change, Resilience, Changement climatique, Résilience, المرونة, التغير المناخي

Publication date

Monday, 06 January 2014

Author

IUCN, Gland, Switzerland / IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Regional Office for West Asia Sweifiyeh, Hasan Baker Al Azzazi Street, #20 Amman, Jordan

Access right

Public

Format

PDF

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