Intervention · Intervention

Risk assessment

Intervention that identifies, analyses, and evaluates risks - including the interaction of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability - to inform adaptation and disaster risk reduction decisions.

Definition source: Sendai Framework; IPCC AR6 WGII

Synonyms

risk analysis

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Adaptation assessment, Climate risk assessment, Vulnerability assessment, Multi-hazard analysis, Loss and damage assessment, Climate-conflict risk analysis

Relations

part-of Research

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Provenance

Domain expert; Lexicon consensus

Identifier

INT_101 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_101
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_101)