This annotated bibliography aims at clarifying and organizing vulnerability methodologies specifically targeted towards the fisheries and aquaculture sector and in the context of climate change. It provides a reference point for practitioners, policy-makers and adaptation planners in constructing and implementing vulnerability assessments, when formulating a national adaptation plan.

This publication groups three technical papers on climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture. These papers provide an overview of the scientific knowledge available at the time of writing (2008). It specifically tackles the physical and ecological impacts of climate change relevant to marine and inland capture fisheries and aquaculture, the consequences of climate change impacts on fisheries and their dependent communities and finally addresses the impacts of climate change on aquaculture.

This policy brief describes how climate variability and change influence the fisheries sector and its future contribution to poverty reduction. It reports on a recent global assessment identifying regions where future climate change could have the most significant impact on the contributions of the fisheries sector to national economies. It further reviews adaptive livelihood and institutional responses to climate variability in fisheries and proposes policy actions and initiatives to help governments and fishing communities maintain and build adaptive capacity to climate change.

This module identifies the tools and methods needed for assessing climate-related risks at community level. It introduces some of the key concepts and steps for climate risk assessment in the context of livelihood adaptation to climate change in agriculture.  

This report presents the outcomes of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Regional Workshop on Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability in Fisheries and Aquaculture, which was held in Namibia in April 2013. It presents an initial review of the bio-physical and biological implications of climate variability and change on the region’s fisheries; reviews the latest stages in research on and application of climate variability and change vulnerability methodologies and discuss their appropriateness to the region's adaptation planning needs; identifies key elements of vulnerability for the region, including climate-related drivers of change and adaptive capacities along the entire fisheries and aquaculture value chains.

This collaborative study dresses an overview of the impacts of climate change on fisheries. It describes the hydrological cycle and its relevance to fisheries, the production variabilities and changes in vulnerability due to constant dynamics of ocean motion affects, provides an in-depth explanation of bioindicators, adresses the history of climate as it relates to fisheries, reviews regional ecological responses to climate change, discusses synchrony and systematic transitions, describes several forecast approaches. Furthemore, it ranks impacts by fishery system type and identifies coping measures. It provides useful informatio to prepare a national adaptation plan.

This study describes a range of multiple-benefit options for integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation into IFAD interventions in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors, based on a review of relevant literature on climate change, the fisheries and aquaculture sectors, and related activities of other international organizations. The proposed measures are not new concepts but have been proven in practice to provide a range of benefits to and increase the resilience of small-scale fishers and fish farmers, as well as the ecosystems on which they rely.

The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) contains contributions from three Working Groups: one assessing the physical science basis of climate change, one the impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, the last one assessing the mitigation of climate change. The Synthesis Report draws on the three Working Groups assessments.    

This paper provides an overview of the status of issues and actions related to the adaptation of forest and rangeland resources to climate change in southern Africa. Their economic, social and environmental functions and significance are highlighted, the drivers of deforestation and land degradation are outlined. The paper provides a summary of climate histories and trends in southern Africa and a discussion on potential impacts of climate change, climate variability and extreme events. It further highlights the adaptation needs.