The CARAVAN (Climate change: a regional assessment of vulnerability and adaptive capacity for the Nordic countries) vulnerability mapping tool is an online resource designed to help users explore different aspects of vulnerability to climate change in the Nordic region. Indicators of exposure to climate change, the sensitivity to these changes and the adaptive capacity to cope with these changes are captured in a geographically detailed web-based tool that allows interactive mapping of combinations of indicators into indices of vulnerability. The tool is designed to allow users to explore these aspects (e.g. by selecting indicators of interest, mapping them alone, weighting them, combining them, and/or looking at them in conjunction with exposure indicators under different climate scenarios), rather than predefining the factors that influence vulnerability. The vulnerability mapping tool covers to two themes, vulnerability of the elderly and agriculture, and is available at: www.iav-mapping.net/CARAVAN.
This toolbox entry has been labelled with the following tags:
| Sector: | independent | |
| Spatial scale: | independent | |
| Temporal focus: | independent | |
| Onset: | independent | |
| Role in decision process: | diagnostic; prescriptive | |
| Level of skills required: | modest | |
| Data requirements: | modest; high | |
| Adaptation tasks: | Potential impact projection; Residual impact projection; Vulnerability and capacity analysis |
CARAVAN was developed and utilized for a project of the same name from 2008 to 2010 to assess different ways to estimate and map vulnerability to climate change at municipal scales in the Nordic region, specifically Finland, Norway, and Sweden. It was also used as a key component of the Nordic Elderly case of the MEDIAITON project, and more information can be found on the MEDIATION website.
The CARAVAN tool is publicly accessible via the website:
http://www.iav-mapping.net/CARAVAN/CARAVAN.html
The case study pool contains the following steps that were performed applying the described entry:
| NE1 - Vulnerability of the elderly | |
| Exploring risks: In which regions are elderly likely to be vulnerable to the future impacts of climate change? | |
