Monitoring and Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation: A Review of the Landscape: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 147 (J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119157579 ISBN 13: 9781119157571

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2015

Synopsis

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate change adaptation (CCA) poses an assortment of thorny methodological challenges. Individually, none are unique to CCA, but together they represent a very distinctive conundrum facing practitioners and policy makers. Adding to this complexity further, climate change may be global in nature but its impacts, and how we respond to them through adaptation efforts, cut across scales, sectors, and levels of intervention.

As investments in climate adaptation increase, organizations are seeking to measure, assess and understand an array of adaptation initiatives, and derive learnings to inform policy and praxis. This issue presents findings from many of the most important contemporary CCA program evaluation research initiatives. The chapters represent the most coherent and current collection of CCA M&E research in this emerging and important field, written by many of its leading experts. Filled with examples and insights in formulating coherent responses to methodological challenges, it will be of interest to M&E scholars and practitioners globally.

This is the 147th issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.

About this title

About the Author:

Volume Editors:
Dennis Bours works as extended-term consultant for the Global Environment Facility’s Independent Evaluation Office.

Colleen McGinn is an independent research consultant and an expert in population coping, adaptation, and resilience and has a long track record in applied research, M&E, and program management.

Patrick Pringle is deputy director at the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) based at the University of Oxford.

Series Editor-in-Chief:
Paul R. Brandon, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1119157579
• ISBN 13: 9781119157571
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Bours Dennis, McGinn Colleen, Pringle Patrick