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Adaptive-capacity index

Composite index that aggregates indicators of the assets, knowledge, institutions, and agency that enable a system or population to adjust to climate variability and change into a single value characterising adaptive capacity.

Definition source: OECD/JRC Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators (2008)

Synonyms

adaptive capacity indicator, resilience capacity index

Broader

Composite index

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

OUT_061 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/OUT_061
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/OUT_061)