Understanding vulnerability to the impacts of global environmental change and identifying
adaptation measures to cope with these impacts require localized investigations that can …

The consequences of environmental change are not uniform. They vary for different people,
places, and times. This is the clear picture that emerges from studies of the impacts of global …

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 …

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change,
particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action …

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

The socio-economic impacts of environmental stresses associated with global
environmental change depend to a large extent on how societies organize themselves …

In the last ten years, the study of vulnerability has mushroomed. The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for example, shifted the focus of their second working …

This chapter examines the application of the concept of human vulnerability to
environmental change and addresses issues of human well-being in the context of …

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

Reducing vulnerability is essential for adaptation to climate change. Compared to
approaches that examine vulnerability to a specific hazard, our analysis offers an alternative …