6. Avoid starting from scratch: further resources
Where to go for more information
The tables below list tools, reports and other resources which you can access after exploring the materials on this site. Each of the listed tools has a short introduction which explains its significance for developing socially just adaptation responses or responses relating to the other themes covered in this website. The section ends with a reference list and links to where you can find further information about some of the topics covered.
On this page:
Adaptation tools and resources (see also Diagram of tools and resources)
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Presentation to outline why Local Authorities and their partners need to take a socially just approach to building more resilient communities. |
Climate Just |
Presentation |
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Get started and delivering adaptation |
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CLASP Adaptation Resource Pack Pack to guide local authorities through the process of getting started with adaptation activity and embedding adaptation into local authority processes. |
Climate Change North West |
Resource pack/process |
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Adaptation Scotland Tools and Resource web pages A set of resources together with a guiding process aimed at a range of audiences including the public sector, businesses and communities to help support adaptation and building resilience. Tools can be searched according to sector, stage and resource type. |
Adaptation Scotland |
Resource pack/compilation |
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Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) A set of resources for local action with a global reach. It covers case studies, tools and a Don’t Panic guide to getting started on your Adaptation Journey. |
EcoAdapt and Island Press |
Resource pack/compilation |
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Understanding local vulnerability |
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Set of maps showing vulnerability to climate change. |
Climate Just |
Map tool |
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Assess current & future climate change |
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Local Climate Impacts Profile (LCLIP) Designed to support the UKCIP Climate Adaptation Wizard, this tool supports the assessment of past weather-related events and their impacts as a basis for understanding the possible impacts of future weather-related events. |
UKCIP |
Guidance and Spreadsheets |
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In depth data and maps on predicted changes due to climate change. |
UKCP09 |
Data and mapping |
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The UKCP18 project will update the UKCP09 projections over UK land areas and update UKCP09 projections of sea-level rise, giving greater regional detail, further analysis of the risks we face, both nationally and globally, and provide more information on potential extremes and impacts of climate change. |
UKCP18 |
Data and mapping |
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UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 Official assessment of climate change risks in the UK. |
Defra |
Report |
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UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 Evidence Report & Synthesis Independent assessment covering natural environment, infrastructure, people and the built environment, Business and industry and international dimensions. |
Committee on Climate Change |
Report |
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This long-standing tool provides the basis for supported decision-making in relation to climate change risk assessment and climate adaptation planning. |
UKCIP/Environment Agency |
Documents and online materials; connected tools |
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Severe Weather Impacts Monitoring System (SWIMS) A data collection tool to encourage learning around the impacts of and responses to past extreme weather events as the basis for improved future decision-making. |
Kent County Council |
Online Tool |
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Engaging communities |
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Aimed at local communities and the organisations working with them, this set of resources supports the process of understanding local needs and developing emergency plans based on those needs. |
Cabinet Office (UK) |
Communities |
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Reports, checklists and case studies |
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Prepare an adaptation plan |
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Risk and vulnerability assessment tool, to aid the strategic planning of climate change adaptation responses – focuses on current vulnerability to flooding and heat stress with an evaluation of risk factors where data is available. |
GRaBS partnership |
Online tool |
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Evaluate Adaptation Plan |
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Aimed at managers wanting to evaluate climate change action and interventions within their organisations. Supplements stage 5 of the UKCIP Adaptation Wizard. |
UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) |
Online Tool |
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Target a specific sector |
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Adapting UK dwellings to reduce overheating during heatwaves: Retrofit Advice Tool (CREW) Aimed at designers, decision makers and householders to support the assessment of options for retrofitting homes based on property type and characteristics. |
Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD) and De Montfort University. |
Adapting Buildings (Online Tool) |
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Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change (BIOPICCC) Toolkit Aimed at anyone with a role in supporting health and social care for older people. Resources cover understanding needs and protecting infrastructure. |
Durham University |
Health and Social Care (Online Tool) |
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Environment Agency Health and Wellbeing Toolkit This resource pulls together a range of existing information and tools specifically to support the work of Health and Wellbeing Boards. |
Environment Agency |
Facts, case studies, tools and resources for the Health and Social Care sector |
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Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation (SHAPE) A mapping tool principally aiming to support strategic planning of health services and infrastructure but which has a role in providing more effective adaptation solutions. |
NHS |
Health Sector (Online Tool) |
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Other tools |
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Adaptation Scotland’s step-by-step guide on how public bodies can respond to the threats and opportunities associated with a changing climate. |
SNIFFER (Scotland) |
PDFs and Spreadsheets |
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Identifying Adaptation Options (AdOpt) Provides a list of possible adaptation options matched with practical examples and ideas for good practice in adaptation decision-making. |
UKCIP |
Online Tool |
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Business Areas Climate Assessment Tool (BACLIAT) Initially aimed at businesses but applicable to any organisation, BACLIAT supports self assessment of the impacts of past events as a means of improving institutional capacity to deal with events in the future. |
UKCIP & the Environment Agency |
Workshop Guidance |
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Community Training on Green Infrastructure Package of training resources to be delivered by professionals seeking to engage with community groups on the need for climate change adaptation. |
Climate Change NW |
Resource pack |
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The plan provides the framework for action during specific periods of very cold weather. It includes an ‘equality analysis’ and other resources which can assist local decision-making. |
Public Health England/NHS |
Reports and action cards for the Health and social care sector |
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The plan provides the framework for action during specific periods of very hot weather. It includes an ‘equality analysis’ and other resources which can assist local decision-making. |
Public Health England/NHS |
Health and social care sector |
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Report and actions |
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Consultants for Defra & the LGA |
Interactive PDF |
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Public Health Outcomes Data Tool A set of indicators and associated data about public health and health inequalities supporting the Public Health Outcomes Framework. Data Indicators are updated on a regular basis and available at a range of geographies across England. |
Public Health England |
Data for the Health sector |
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Designed to address the lack of easy-to-use guidance to support the use of novel flood resilience measures in planning, this resource provides a process to follow and resources for further information. |
Building Research Establishment, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Manchester |
Guidance document |
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World Health Organisation Cost Analysis Tool A controversial tool aimed at the health sector. Read more about issues associated with using cost-benefit analyses to build resilience in our introduction. |
WHO |
Guidance document for the Health sector |
Other resources for energy and fuel poverty responses
To follow
Case studies and reports
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A county perspective on social vulnerability assessment and its uses A grid based approach to estimating social vulnerability and potential exposure to flood and heat-waves. A technical document explaining the way that Hampshire County Council mapped social vulnerability. |
Hampshire County Council |
Case study |
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A unitary authority perspective on using the ClimateJust data for local adaptation planning. |
Wigan Council |
Case Study and how to document |
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Case studies of adaptation to climate change in south-west England. |
Benzie et al (2011) |
Report |
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Impacts of climate change on disadvantaged UK coastal communities. |
Zsamboky et al (2011) |
Report |
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Pluvial (rain-related) flooding in urban areas: the invisible hazard. |
Houston et al (2011) |
Report |
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Distribution of Carbon Emissions in the UK: Implications for Domestic Energy Policy. |
Preston et al (2013) |
Report |
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Getting the measure of fuel poverty. Final Report of the Fuel Poverty Review. |
Hills, J. (ed.) (2012) |
Report |
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The Marmot Review: Fair Society, Healthy Lives. Strategic Review of health Inequalities in England post-2010. |
Marmot, M. (2010) |
Report |
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Climate Justice, Environmental Justice and Community Action. |
Federation for Community Development Learning |
Report |
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Groups vulnerable to climate change. |
Wales Council for Voluntary Action (2012) |
Report |
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Social justice and the future of flood insurance: Viewpoint. |
O’Neill & O’Neill (2012) |
Report |
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Pitt (2008) |
Report |
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Overheating in new homes - A review of the evidence. |
NHBC Foundation |
Report (NF46) |
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Lindley et al (2011) |
Report |
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Socially just adaptation to climate change.
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Jean Welstead et al (2012) |
Report |
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