作者
Philip Antwi-Agyei, Andrew J Dougill, Evan DG Fraser, Lindsay C Stringer
发表日期
2013/8
期刊
Environment, development and sustainability
卷号
15
页码范围
903-926
出版商
Springer Netherlands
简介
This paper builds on national- and regional-level vulnerability assessments by developing and applying a livelihood vulnerability index at the community and household scales to explore the nature of climate vulnerability. It provides innovative methodological steps in relation to livelihood assessment to identify the vulnerability of households and communities to drought. This will help to improve drought vulnerability assessments in Ghana and more widely as it shows extra information can be obtained from local-level vulnerability assessment that may be lacking in national- and regional-level analysis. The research employs quantitative and qualitative data collected through participatory methods, key informant interviews and a questionnaire survey with 270 households across 6 communities in two regions in Ghana. Results show that within the same agroecological zone, households and communities …
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