The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has set out guidance to move countries forward via National Adaptation Plans, but many of these have proven non-implementable because they are generic and lack details on community needs. Here we review what vulnerability risk assessments (VRA) characteristics are considered desirable but absent, and thence develop an Evaluation Tool, for systematically analyzing VRAs as used for adaptation planning at the local level. We test it experimentally on an innovative VRA process claiming better outcomes - it uses a preprocess of crystallizing shared values of participants before considering climate issues. The evaluation results show that the Tool can successfully discriminate the quality of this approach and captures many distinct characteristics and differences. The Tool, which can also be a practitioner’s checklist, should thus be helpful in identifying and accelerating improvements in VRAs, and hence in adaptation planning, with affiliated local and global benefits.

《联合国气候变化框架公约》制定了通过国家适应计划推动各国向前发展的指南，但其中许多已被证明无法实施，因为它们是通用的，并且缺乏社区需求的详细信息。在这里，我们回顾了哪些脆弱性风险评估 (VRA) 特征被认为是可取但不存在的，然后开发了一个评估工具，用于系统地分析用于地方层面适应规划的 VRA。我们在一个创新的 VRA 过程中对其进行了实验测试，声称获得了更好的结果——它在考虑气候问题之前使用了一个使参与者的共同价值观具体化的预处理过程。评估结果表明，该工具可以成功区分这种方法的质量，并捕捉到许多明显的特征和差异。工具，