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Assessing vulnerability to climate change: The link between objectives and assessment

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Title Assessing vulnerability to climate change: The link between objectives and assessment
 
Creator PATWARDHAN, A
 
Subject sea-level rise
united-states
economic cost
impact
climate change
coastal change
sea level rise
vulnerability assessment
 
Description The vulnerability of developing countries to potential impacts of climate change and the options for adaptation are rapidly emerging as central issues in the debate around policy responses to climate change. In order to prioritize, design and implement interventions to adapt to climate change, it is essential to adopt a coherent and consistent set of definitions and frameworks for examining vulnerability, adaptation and adaptive capacity. In practice, a variety of definitions of vulnerability and adaptation are found in the literature. This paper uses the base of literature from the context of the coastal impacts of climate change to draw some explicit linkages between the objectives of vulnerability and adaptation assessment and the definitions used in the analysis. We find that such a linkage is helpful for identifying the nature of assessment required, and the data and information necessary. The paper concludes with some thoughts regarding directions for research with regard to vulnerability and adaptation assessment.
 
Publisher CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN
 
Date 2011-07-21T05:12:58Z
2011-12-26T12:51:53Z
2011-12-27T05:38:37Z
2011-07-21T05:12:58Z
2011-12-26T12:51:53Z
2011-12-27T05:38:37Z
2006
 
Type Article
 
Identifier CURRENT SCIENCE, 90(3), 376-383
0011-3891
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/5794
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/5794
 
Language en