Sensitivity index (2010) - ClimAfrica WP4

The “sensitivity index” describes the sensitivity or the human–environmental conditions that can worsen the hazard, ameliorate the hazard, or trigger an impact in 2010. Sensitivity in its general sense is defined as the degree to which a system is modified or affected by an internal or external disturbance or set of disturbances. This measure, which herein reflects the responsiveness of a system to climatic influences, is shaped by both socio-economic and ecological conditions and determines the degree to which a group will be affected by environmental stress. Therefore, the “sensitivity index” results from the addition of underlying indexes, namely the “human sensitivity index” and the “natural sensitivity index”, which relative weights are 0.55 and 0.44, respectively. The weights were computed via Principal Component Analysis among the primary variables that compose the two underlying indexes.

This dataset has been produced in the framework of the “Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations (ClimAfrica)” project, Work Package 4 (WP4). More information on ClimAfrica project is provided in the Supplemental Information section of this metadata.

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Date ( Creation )
2014-09-01T00:00:00
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose
Purpose of WP4 - D4.3 is to establish a medium-term warning system (based on ClimAfrica data) that produces prospective analyses about climate change impacts on agriculture for the next 10 years. This will fill the gap between seasonal scale predictions and long-term impact scenarios, and identify the future Areas of Concerns (AoCs) and likely hotspots of vulnerabilities.
Status
Completed
Originator
FAO-NRC - Selvaraju Ramasamy ( Natural Resources Officer )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , Italy
Point of contact
FAO-NRL - John Latham ( Senior Land and Water Officer )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , Italy
Point of contact
FAO-NRL - Renato Cumani ( Land and Water Officer )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , Italy
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • vulnerability
  • sensitivity
  • WP4
  • ClimAfrica
  • Tag_climafrica
Keywords ( Place )
  • Africa
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Copyright
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Supplemental Information

ClimAfrica is an international project funded by European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) for the period 2010-2014. The ClimAfrica consortium is formed by 18 institutions, 9 from Europe, 8 from Africa, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO).

ClimAfrica is conceived to respond to the urgent international need for the most appropriate and up-to-date tools and methodologies to better understand and predict climate change, assess its impact on African ecosystems and population, and develop the correct adaptation strategies. Africa is probably the most vulnerable continent to climate change and climate variability and shows diverse range of agro-ecological and geographical features. Thus the impacts of climate change can be very high and will greatly differ across the continent, and even within countries.

The project focus on the following specific objectives:

1. Develop improved climate predictions on seasonal to decadal climatic scales, especially relevant to SSA;

2. Assess climate impacts in key sectors of SSA livelihood and economy, especially water resources and agriculture; 3- Evaluate the vulnerability of ecosystems and civil population to inter-annual variations and longer trends (10 years) in climate;

3. Suggest and analyse new suited adaptation strategies, focused on local needs;

4. Develop a new concept of 10 years monitoring and forecasting warning system, useful for food security, risk management and civil protection in SSA;

5. Analyse the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture and water resources in SSA and the cost-effectiveness of potential adaptation measures.

The work of ClimAfrica project is broken down into the following work packages (WPs) which are closely connected. All the activities described in WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5 consider the domain of the entire South Sahara Africa region. Only WP6 has a country specific (watershed) spatial scale where models validation and detailed processes analysis are carried out.
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GCS WGS 84 (EPSG Ellipsoid 7030)
Resolution
30  arc/sec
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OnLine resource
ClimAfr03_sensitivity_index.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Sensitivity index (2010)

OnLine resource
geonetwork:climafr03_sensitivity_index_48362 ( OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map )

Sensitivity index (2010)

OnLine resource
Project deliverable D4.1 - Scenarios of major production systems in Africa ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Project deliverable D4.1 - Scenarios of major production systems in Africa

OnLine resource
Climafrica Website - Climate Change Predictions In Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts And Adaptations ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Climafrica Website - Climate Change Predictions In Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts And Adaptations

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cf27ac84-c65f-4108-b4d4-0392dff230f1 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2015-01-22T15:08:05
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Originator
FAO-UN NRC - Selvaraju Ramasamy ( Natural Resources Officer )
Author
FAO-UN NRL - Patrizia Monteduro ( Consultant )
 
 

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ClimAfrica Tag_climafrica WP4 sensitivity vulnerability

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