Adaptation Case Study Report Rubric
20 points: Setting: What are the particular challenges, exposures, demographics, associated with the impacts of climate change where the adaptation plan has been developed?
10 points: What is included in the plan, and what are the plans objectives? Include sectors, approaches, strategies
10 points: Who are the stakeholders? Who are the most vulnerable? Has there been an effort to raise awareness of impacts and engage those who would be affected by the plan implementation?
10 points: How much information is there about the stage of planning and adaptation? What are the local challenges to adaptation? Has there been any assessment of the plan? What has changed in the adaptation plan if newer revised plans have been developed?
10 points: Who is impacted by the plan, and is everyone impacted in the same way? Does it address vulnerability of people, environmental equity and distributive and procedural justice?
20 points: CONCLUSIONS: What are the important things we should know about this effort?
Do you think the adaptation plan will have good results, why or why not? What might you recommend including in the plan that is left out?
10 points: Additional Considerations: Efforts to include multiple sources of information about adaptation, governance (corruption), conflicts, barriers to adaptation
10 points: Formatted citation of sources in report and matching references
Must format references:
Author(s). Date. Article title. Journal title. Volume(issue):pages, online link (date accessed).
Author(s). Date. Title of Book. Edition. Place of publication: publisher, pages and links (date accessed)
Please refer to this online resource: https://www.scientificstyleandformat.org/Tools/SSF-Citation-Quick-Guide.html (Links to an external site.)
Write in your OWN WORDS, and cite where the information came from, such as these examples:
According to a Kenward et al. (2016) the number of wildland fires has increased due to climate change.
The number of fires have increased with climate change (Kenward et al. 2016).
Total Report Length: 2500-5000 words
