A review of approaches for monitoring and evaluation of urban climate resilience initiatives
Abstract
There are numerous challenges that evaluators face when determining the success of urban climate resilience
initiatives (e.g., how to attribute impacts to initiatives). Fortunately, a growing body of literature --much of it
dealing with climate change adaptation-- has emerged which can help address these challenges. This narrative
review of academic and grey literature reviews various monitoring and evaluation methods that can assess the
inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes, and impacts that result from climate resilience planning and action. Since
there is no commonly accepted monitoring and evaluation approach, the literature stresses the importance of
acknowledging the context in which resilience is being evaluated, in order to ensure that appropriate methods
are chosen. This context includes the ways that the resilience framework and definition chosen for a project
constrain and determine the monitoring and evaluation approaches which can be adopted. As a result of this, a
blend of quantitative and qualitative approaches is often recommended, with sufficient evidence suggesting that
qualitative approaches (e.g., outcome harvesting) are essential. Nuanced approaches to monitoring and
evaluation give evaluators additional means of reporting progress, and of demonstrating success, which is
especially important as cities begin to implement resilience initiatives in the coming years.
Description
This is a post-peer review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Environment, Development and Sustainability. The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-016-9891-7URI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-016-9891-7http://hdl.handle.net/10613/5475
http://dx.doi.org/10.25316/IR-422
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