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CRiSTAL Tool
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CRiSTAL Tool
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CRiSTAL Parks: English / Español (ZIP - 5.27 MB)
CRiSTAL Parks helps users integrate climate risks into conservation planning, identify the potential of protected areas or conservation zones to reduce climate risks, and develop tailored climate change adaptation measures for both the ecosystems and people’s livelihoods they support.
CRiSTAL Parks is a desktop application that runs on Microsoft Windows 7 or newer versions. To download the tool, click on the link above, save it on your computer, and then double-click on the "setup.exe" file to run the application. The setup application will guide you through the installation process. Users can select English or Spanish language options within the tool.
CRiSTAL Parks User's Manual Version: English (PDF - 3.2 MB) - Español (PDF - 3.5 MB)
A User's Manual is available to guide you through the CRiSTAL Parks tool. To download, click on the link above and save it to your computer.
CRiSTAL Parks Brochure: (English - 5.8 MB) (Español - 2.3 MB)
CRiSTAL Parks Presentation Video
CRiSTAL Food Security Version 2.0: English (XLS - 7.39 MB) - Español (XLS - 4.01 MB)
IISD and its partners have developed CRiSTAL Food Security to help users navigate the food system, identify vulnerable elements of that system, and design resilience actions and monitoring indicators applicable to the local context.
CRiSTAL Food Security runs on Microsoft Excel. To download the current version of CRiSTAL Food Security, click on one of the links above and save the file on your computer.
CRiSTAL Food Security User's Manual Version 2.0: English (PDF - 5.77 MB) - Español (PDF - 6.09 MB)
A User's Manual is available to guide you through the tool. To download, click on the link above and save it to your computer.
CRiSTAL Forests: Download (ZIP - 1.54 mb)
The CRiSTAL Forests tool is a desktop application that runs on Microsoft Windows 7 or newer versions. To download the tool, click on the link above, save it on your computer, and then double-click on the "setup.exe" file to run the application. The setup application will guide you through the installation process.
CRiSTAL Forests User Manual: English (PDF - 6.1 mb)
A User's Manual is available to guide you through the CRISTAL Forests tool. To download, click on the link above and save it to your computer.
CRiSTAL Version 5: English, Français and Español (ZIP - 1 mb)
This new version of CRiSTAL is a desktop application that runs on Microsoft Windows 7 or newer versions. To download the tool, click on the link above, save it on your computer, and then double-click on the "setup.exe" file to run the application. The setup application will guide you through the installation process. Users can select English, French or Spanish language options within the tool.
CRiSTAL User’s Manual Version 5:
English (PDF - 15 mb) - Español (PDF - 17 mb)
- Français (PDF - 17 mb)
A User’s Manual is available to guide you through the new version of the tool. To download, click on the link above and save it to your computer.
CRiSTAL Version 4:
English (XLS - 829 kb) - Français (XLS - 1.7 mb) - Español (XLS - 857 kb) - Português (XLS - 979 kb)
CRiSTAL runs on Microsoft Excel. To download the current version of CRiSTAL, click on one of the links above and save the file on your computer.
In consultation with community members and project leaders and designers, move through the tool step-by-step. Consultations are central to the effective use of CRiSTAL. These can range from informal discussions to organized workshops, and the information gathered during these consultations will inform CRiSTAL’s analysis.
The Excel version of the tool can be used directly with communities and project managers, moving through the two modules as a group, or you can bring to the field only the User’s Manual (below) and/or Field Manual (will be available here soon) and afterwards input the collected data into the CRiSTAL Excel document. Regardless of which approach is taken, multiple consultations will be needed to ensure that you engage different gender, economic and social groups.
Click here (XLS - 900 KB) for a sample set of completed CRiSTAL spreadsheets from a field application conducted by IUCN in Garissa, Kenya. The corresponding report can be found in the CRiSTAL experiences section.
CRiSTAL User's Manual Version 4:
English (PDF - 2.17 mb) - Français (PDF 2.58 mb) - Español (PDF 1.79 mb) - Português (PDF - 1.99 mb)
A User’s Manual is available to guide you through the tool. To download, click on the link above and save it to your computer.
CRiSTAL Brochure Version 4:
English (PDF - 428 KB) - Français (PDF - 441 KB) - Español (PDF - 448 KB)
The CRiSTAL brochure gives a brief overview of the goals and functions of the tool.
CRiSTAL Experiences:
CRiSTAL is continually being updated and fine-tuned to respond to questions or feedback from its users. To help strengthen the tool and share your experiences in using it, fill in our Reporting Template (DOC - 74 kb), and/or contact the CRiSTAL team directly.
CRiSTAL field test and application results are available in the Experiences section.
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