Description:
"Understanding climate – its drivers, variabilities, extremes, and trends – is essential for facilitating
better risks and resources management, and development of planning initiatives. Historical climate
data, which is a record of past climate, can reinforce short term, medium term, and long term
preparedness. Historical climate data, along with other variables, provides a range of utility, viz:
o identification of climate’s location specific seasonality, variations and trends, and climate
correlation to other relevant variables (e.g. rainfall and/or temperature and crop growth,
crop yield and/or crop damage; rainfall and/or temperature and insect infestation; rainfall
and/or temperature and disease outbreak; rainfalland/or temperature and drought; rainfall
and flooding; temperature and/or rainfall and energy generation and consumption; rainfall
and temperature and reservoir operation; and wind speed and wind energy generation, etc.),
for guiding effective planning and decision making in various sectors, pricing premiums and
identification of incentive packages to clients in insurance industry, and better analysis and
presentation of reports by media
o validation of community experiences, for fostering national, sub national and local
stakeholders’ understanding of climate risks and strengthening design of interventions for
resilience
o development and updating of location specific hazard and/or risk maps, for guiding disaster
risk reduction decisions
o refining weather/climate forecasting models
o providing reference for analysis of forecast of various timescales, and generation of
advisories for risks and resources management
o providing reference against which to compare current climate, and a baseline for anticipating
potential future scenarios
The key focus of this analysis is to provide evidence to/support community climate related
experiences and perceptions, in key townships in Myanmar’s Central Dry, coastal and hilly zones; and
develop inferences vis à vis opportunities and risks offered by location specific climate variabilities,
extremes, and trends.
1.2. Objectives
While providing opportunities for various uses of analysis outputs, this study is undertaken to provide
evidence to/support community experiences and perceptions on climate variabilities, extremes and
observable trends in select priority areas in different climate zones, in Table 1, for evolving better
understanding of past, current and potential future climate opportunities and risks..."
Source/publisher:
HABITAT (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements)
Date of Publication:
2018-06-07
Date of entry:
2019-07-14
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- Individual Documents
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Countries:
Myanmar
Language:
English
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