Agroecosystem specific climate vulnerability analysis: application of the livelihood vulnerability index to a tropical highland region

Social vulnerability of small scale coastal fisher's livelihood to climate change

Fisheries support livelihood of over half a billion of people globally. Many of these people live in coastal regions of developing countries; and have limited capacity to adapt and build resilience in the face of climate change.  This research assesses the biophysical and socioeconomic characteristics of fishers in four coastal communities, Komenda, Elmina, Cape coast and Morree, in Ghana. Stru...

Vulnerability to climate induced highland malaria in East Africa

Application of Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping in Livelihood Vulnerability Analysis

Feedback mechanisms are important in the analysis of vulnerability and resilience of social-ecological systems, as well as in the analysis of livelihoods, but how to evaluate systems with direct feedbacks has been a great challenge. We applied fuzzy cognitive mapping, a tool that allows analysis of both direct and indirect feedbacks and can be used to explore the vulnerabilities of livelihoods ...

A New Climate vulnerability Index Sistan and Baluchistan province

The more exposure to Climate change / variability, the more vulnerability and a community with low adaptive capacity and high sensitivity is more vulnerable. Vulnerability reduction depends on adaptation policy and strategies. Designing and assessing these strategies require climate vulnerability (CV) measuring. To produce a new CV index, as a main propose of this study, first: The score of exp...

Social vulnerability to climate

Social vulnerability to climate in the “Little Ice Age”: an example from Central Europe in the early 1770s C. Pfister and R. Brázdil Institute of History/NCCR Climate, University of Bern, Unitobler, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, The Czech Republic Received: 1 February 2006 – Accepted: 22 March 2006 – Published: 7 April 2006 ...