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Bridging the Macro-Micro Divide through a New Paradigm for Climate Resilience Assessment in Data-Scarce Regions

Bridging the Macro-Micro Divide through a New Paradigm for Climate Resilience Assessment in Data-Scarce Regions

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Authors

Ronald Katende 

Abstract

Efforts to assess climate resilience in low-income countries (LICs) are often hampered by fragmented data systems and analytical silos between national and local scales. This study proposes and operationalizes an integrated empirical framework that bridges macroeconomic econometric modeling and micro-level spatial analysis to measure and visualize climate resilience in data-scarce settings. Using Uganda as a core case study, we estimate sectoral resilience through dynamic panel regression and generate spatial productivity surfaces using kriging interpolation on sparse field and satellite data. We introduce the Resilience Asymmetry Surface (RAS), a diagnostic tool that synthesizes income and climate stress to highlight structural vulnerability and intervention leverage points. The results uncover stark cross-sectoral and spatial heterogeneity in resilience outcomes, demonstrating that reliance on single-scale assessments can misdirect adaptation investments. Our framework enables data-efficient, actionable diagnostics that can inform national strategies and localized interventions alike. This work advances a scalable, policy-relevant methodology for integrated climate resilience planning in LICs.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31223/X57T64

Subjects

Environmental Studies

Keywords

Satellite-based analysis, Sustainable development., Adaptation metrics, Resilience asymmetry, Localized resilience, Climate-sensitive sectors, Income-exposure interactions, Structural inequality, Vulnerability hotspots, Climate-informed decision-making, agricultural productivity, Cross-country comparison, Panel data analysis, Spatial econometrics, Multi-scale modeling, Climate Resilience, remote sensing, Geostatistical interpolation, Ordinary kriging, Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), Dynamic panel modeling, Policy-relevant metrics, Climate stress mapping, Resilience assessment, Sectoral vulnerability, Climate adaptation planning, Spatial diagnostics, Macro-micro integration, Low-income countries, Data-scarce environments

Dates

Published: 2025-06-05 06:22

Last Updated: 2025-06-05 06:22

License

CC BY Attribution 4.0 International

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Data Availability (Reason not available):
Data, and the receptive code, will be deposited into a Public repository, once the study is deemed, complete. The study will be deemed complete, when the paper is accepted. However even during the review process and making of any corrections, the data and code will be available upon request.

Conflict of interest statement:
The author declares no competing interests, from any individual or entity.