Molly Hellmuth

• PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Water)
• Senior Technical Director at Winrock International

Global climate change impacts are multifaceted and interconnected. These impacts can contribute to political, economic, and social instability outside of US borders, with implications for US national security, economics, trade and investment, and sustainable development. Emerging approaches that address inequalities, interdependent risks, climate f...

The primary purpose of this report is to assess the resilience capacities of the ESC region from natural hazards and inform USAID/ESC regional programming. The assessment will inform USAID/ESC in the development assistance in the region extends to eleven countries: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and...

The project aimed to assist transportation planners and investors in identifying and addressing current and potential future flood risks to existing infrastructure and planned investments in Dar es Salaam’s Bus Rapid Transit. The project included the following aspects: • Assessing the current and future climate vulnerability of the existing transpo...

As climate change impacts emerge ever more forcefully around the globe, decision makers have begun to ask, with increasing urgency, how they can make their communities and businesses more resilient. One obvious place to start is infrastructure-those structures and systems, such as roads, bridges, and water treatment facilities, that are designed to...

The aim of this mini-grid study is two-fold: 1. To assess the extent to which climate change was considered in the planning, design, and construction of the mini-grids, and 2. Based on this knowledge, make recommendations for integrating climate change into future mini-grids.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many countries face the challenge of strengthening and expanding electricity generation and infrastructure while incorporating climate resilience and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets into long-term power planning. Increasingly, climate change impacts threaten investments in renewable energy, particularly hydropower, and thus...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many countries face the challenge of strengthening and expanding electricity generation and infrastructure while incorporating climate resilience and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets into long-term power planning. Increasingly, climate change impacts threaten investments in renewable energy, particularly hydropower, and thus...

This paper highlights the findings of this PEAR assessment, with an emphasis on the vulnerabilities of the municipality’s power distribution system as part of a broader examination that surveyed the resilience of a range of the municipality’s infrastructure and services. The sections below describe the: 1) Impacts of the storms on power services to...

Climate variability and change can pose risks to the integrity and performance of low-emission development (LED) investments, yet most LED planners don't yet routinely consider the potential effects of climate on their programs and projects. Fortunately, a variety of tools have been developed in the past several years that planners can now use to d...

The objectives of the project were twofold: 1. To assess the current and future climate vulnerability of the existing transport infrastructure in Dar es Salaam and propose a strategy to increase the resilience of the city’s transport system; and, 2. To propose immediate cost-efficient solutions to increase the robustness of the BRT system’s operati...

The Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) Sections 118 and 119 require country-level analyses on tropical forests and biodiversity in support of the Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS). This FAA 118/119 Analysis (Analysis) for USAID/Cambodia meets this requirement and identifies the “actions necessary” in that country to achieve conservation and...

This Notebook is designed for professional staff or technical consultants who are leading or supporting a municipal land use planning process or the development of a municipal development plan. Information in the Notebook will also be useful to municipal staff and decision makers, policy makers, and stakeholders who want to better understand the re...

There is an urgent need in the APEC region to enhance the resilience of energy infrastructure to reduce the impact from natural and man-made disasters, and climate change. APEC economies face 70 per cent of all global natural disasters. Energy systems are further stressed by exploding growth and urbanization across the APEC region. This project sup...

this Adaptation Plan takes a portfolio approach that includes a variety of strategies and near- and longer-term adaptation measures identified and validate by the City Hall. In the framework of planning for climate adaptation, this Adaptation Plan offers key adaptation measures which should be considered within the National District Land Use Plan (...

This paper aims to inform energy planners and investors about i) how climate change can affect power generation resources, particularly hydropower resources; and ii) an approach that can be taken to address climate change risks, both at the project and sector level, to improve power system resilience and enhance energy security.

this Adaptation Plan takes a portfolio approach that includes a variety of strategies and near- and longer-term adaptation measures identified and validate by the City Hall. In the framework of planning for climate adaptation, this Adaptation Plan offers a portfolio of key adaptation measures which should be considered within the Municipal Land Use...

This paper aims to inform energy planners and investors about i) how climate change can affect power generation resources, particularly hydropower resources; and ii) an approach that can be taken to address climate change risks, both at the project and sector level, to improve power system resilience and enhance energy security.

This assessment is a starting point from which the municipality of Santiago can explore how the effects of climate, the non- climatic impacts, and degree of adaptative capacity contribute to the vulnerability of the municipality's development objectives, and, in addition, how climate change may exacerbate these vulnerabilities in the future. The an...

This framework for screening hydropower facilities for climate change risks to business performance is designed to help • Hydropower plant managers and operators identify vulnerabilities of existing facilities; and • Hydropower project developers or investors screen planned hydropower projects for climate vulnerabilities at the conceptualization st...

This report is organized in four sections that inform Tanzania power planners: 1) How climate is projected to change in Tanzania, including at a sub-national level: This report presents a range of potential climate changes for different variables and stressors, given a “low” and “high” greenhouse gas emissions scenario, to reflect future climate ch...

This report is organized in four sections that inform Ghana’s power planners on: 1) How climate is projected to change in Ghana, including at a sub-national level: This report presents a range of potential climate changes for different variables and stressors at mid-century, given “low” and “high” greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, to reflect futu...

The purpose of this report was to inform the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) Scenario Planning Steering Group (SPSG) participants of: 1) the types of climate change risks and impacts occurring at the nexus of energy‐water‐land that electric utilities need to be aware of and plan for; and 2) the types of risk management options that...

A method is described for the generation of multivariate stochastic climate sequences for the Berg and Breede Water Management Areas in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The sequences, based on joint modeling of precipitation and minimum and maximum daily temperatures, are conditioned on annualized data, the aim being to simulate realistic...

This article was submitted without an abstract, please refer to the full-text PDF file.

This article was submitted without an abstract, please refer to the full-text PDF file.

This article was submitted without an abstract, please refer to the full-text PDF file.

The ‘water box’ dilemma must be resolved. Leaders in the water sector – in water supply and sanitation, hydropower, irrigation and ood control – have long been aware that water is essential to sustainable development, but they do not make the decisions on development objectives and the allocation of human and nancial resources to meet them. These d...

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As new projects and programs are proposed to promote climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Africa, it is important to learn from the successes and failures of the Climate Outlook Forums.

AIACC Working Papers, published on-line by Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC), is a series of papers and paper abstracts written by researchers participating in the AIACC project. Papers published in AIACC Working Papers have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in the on-line series as being (i) fundamental...

An integrated population, economic, and water resource model was developed to address sustainable development questions for Botswana. raditionally, water resources planning models have considered the implications of different assumptions of population and economic growth on the sustainability of existing water resources supply; however, this model...

It is in the shantytowns and rural villages of the Third World that floods and droughts strike hardest and deepest. Vulnerability to the vagaries of climate depends not only on location, but, crucially, on the capacity of the victims to cope with the impacts of extreme weather. So, where are the people most at risk from the effects of climate varia...

Even without the impacts of climate change, water managers face prodigious challenges in meeting sustainable development goals. Growing populations need affordable food, water and energy. Industrial development demands a growing share of water resources and contaminates those same resources with its untreated wastes. Nature is at the back of the qu...

Project Objectives The broad objective of AIACC Project 47 is to develop the capacity to estimate and compare the benefits and costs of projects in natural resource sectors that reduce the expected damages from climate change in Southern and West Africa. There are two parts to this project. The first consists of using well-established principles fr...

The broad objective of AIACC project 47 is to develop the capacity to estimate and compare the benefits and costs of projects in natural resource sectors that reduce the expected damages from climate change. The South African case study focuses on the Berg River basin in the Western Cape, where irrigators of high-value export crops face growing com...

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Colorado, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [97]-100).