Exploring differences in our common future(s): the meaning of vulnerability to global environmental change

Dow, Kirstin

doi:10.1016/0016-7185(92)90052-6

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“…Following this definition, different grades of vulnerability shall generate a different damage and loss level in similar conditions of exposure to physical events of a given magnitude. (Dow, 1992;Wisner et al, 2011). Therefore, this definition generates a working stage where vulnerability decrease must be approached, as for example, from the access to technologies, economic situation, education level or other relevant social aspects.…”

Section: • Identification Of the Adaptation Needsmentioning

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Decision Making and Adaptation Processes to Climate Change

Bustos

Vicuña

2016

Ambient. soc.

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Climate change imposes certain challenges not only to ecosystems but to societies as well. The change in environmental conditions makes necessary to review the decision-making process related to adaptation to climate change. This review should consider future risks or current conditions of vulnerability through existing mechanisms in organizations or societies. From this analysis onwards, processes must be developed allowing, either to prepare the way to face expected future impacts or to decrease the current vulnerability regarding climate by creating more resilient systems. In this context, the role of the academy, as a knowledge source, results fundamentally. Nevertheless, this highlight the need to review and improve the communication processes from academy towards different interests groups by means of the co-production and strengthening of links among different society components.

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Decision Making and Adaptation Processes to Climate Change

Bustos

Vicuña

2016

Ambient. soc.

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“…In general, vulnerability approaches to biophysical conditions are largely based on natural hazards and focus on distribution of hazardous conditions, human occupancy within hazardous areas (Muler & Bonetti, 2014), maladaptation (Cooper & Pilkey, 2012, Bernatchez & Fraser, 2012, and the degree of loss associated with a specific hazardous event (Cutter, 1996, Dow, 1992. These approaches, also known as risk-hazard or impact-driven studies, focus on the degree of risk and exposure to hazard, which together determine the level of vulnerability, and issues such as magnitude and duration of the hazardous event (Eakin & Luers, 2006, Ford et al, 2010, Turner et al, 2003.…”

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Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: A review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices

Nguyen

Bonetti

Rogers

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Ocean & Coastal Management

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2016). Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices. Ocean and Coastal Management, Indicator-based assessment of climate-change impacts on coasts: a review of concepts, methodological approaches and vulnerability indices AbstractIncreasing human pressures on coastlines and associated threats posed by sea-level rise have stimulated development of a range of different concepts and methodological approaches to assess coastal vulnerability. The first section of this paper summarizes the concepts associated with vulnerability, natural hazards and climate change. The most widely adopted analytical approaches to vulnerability assessment are described, including spatial scales, the need for hybrid approaches comprising both biophysical and social dimensions of vulnerability, and the gradual incorporation of resilience aspects into such methodologies. In particular, the development and application of vulnerability indices is examined, based on a review of more than 50 studies that applied such indices across a range of hazards. The analytical procedures, proposed typologies, and most commonly selected variables are discussed. This overview demonstrates the breadth of vulnerability studies. This leads inevitably to lack of standardization of concepts and assumptions, which results in limited comparability between outputs for coasts from different areas. However, the widespread demand for vulnerability assessment as a component of decision-making in integrated management of the coast justifies pursuing indicator-based vulnerability assessments. In some cases these will explicitly adopt a consistent methodology that enables comparison between sites, whereas alternatively, metrics may be developed that are designed around particular system components and the site-specific functions for which they are valued. AbstractIncreasing human pressures on coastlines and associated threats posed by sea-level rise have stimulated development of a range of different concepts and methodological approaches to assess coastal vulnerability. The first section of this paper summarizes the concepts associated with vulnerability, natural hazards and climate change. The most widely adopted analytical approaches to vulnerability assessment are described, including spatial scales, the need for hybrid approaches comprising both biophysical and social dimensions of vulnerability, and the gradual incorporation of resilience aspects into such methodologies. In particular, the development and application of vulnerability indices is examined, based on a review of more than 50 studies that applied such indices across a range of hazards. The analytical procedures, proposed typologies, and most commonly selected variables are discussed. This overview demonstrates the breadth of vulnerability studies. This leads inevitably to lack of standardization of concepts and assumptions, which results in limited comparability between outputs for coasts from different areas. H...

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“…It is the variations in these two factors that affect different social groups as well as their vulnerability to CC. Indicators of vulnerability provide means of monitoring potential of vulnerability over time and space, and identifying the processes that contribute to vulnerability, prioritizing strategies for reducing such vulnerability, and evaluating the effectiveness of these strategies in different social and ecological settings [12,13]. Architesh et al, [14] indicated that the sustainable livelihoods approach to mapping vulnerability looks at five types of household assets such as natural, social, financial, physical, and human capital.…”

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