Global environmental change and sustainability science increasingly recognize the need to
address the consequences of changes taking place in the structure and function of the …

A method is proposed for assessing the vulnerability of socio-ecological systems that is
explicitly linked to multiple stakeholder values enabling multiple assessments of …

In the recent years, global environmental change research has seen increased attention to
the concept of vulnerability. There have been a growing number of vulnerability …

The vulnerability framework of the Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
Program explicitly recognizes the coupled human–environment system and accounts for …

Vulnerability and resilience constitute different but overlapping research themes embraced
by sustainability science. As practiced within this science, the two research themes appear …

This paper reviews research traditions of vulnerability to environmental change and the
challenges for present vulnerability research in integrating with the domains of resilience …

The last several years have witnessed a significant evolution in what society wants to know
about global environmental risks such as climate change, ozone depletion, and biodiversity …

Global environmental change includes transformations of both societal and biophysical
systems as the result of human activities. The human consequences of environmental …

Syndrome analysis seeks to capture socio-ecological dynamics of interaction by addressing
clusters of symptoms rather than isolated variables. This paper identifies the main symptoms …

We share a future of environmental changes that entails different consequences for people
and regions. Vulnerability, a central concept in understanding these distributions is receiving …