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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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The author declares no competing interests, from any individual or entity.
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