Vulnerability is an emerging concept for climate science and policy. Over the past decade,
efforts to assess vulnerability to climate change triggered a process of theory development …

The issue of “measuring” climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity by means of
indicators divides policy and academic communities. While policy increasingly demands …

We address the issue of how to develop credible indicators of vulnerability to climate change
that can be used to guide the development of adaptation policies. We compare the …

Purpose–The concept of vulnerability in climate change literature is underpinned by
numerous theoretical contributions across different disciplines leading to disparate …

The term 'vulnerability'is used in many different ways by various scholarly communities. The
resulting disagreement about the appropriate definition of vulnerability is a frequent cause …

Vulnerability is a central concept in climate change research as well as in a number of other
research contexts. However, the term is conceptualized in many different ways by the …

There is confusion regarding the notion of “vulnerability” in the climate change scientific
community. Recent research has identified a need for formalisation, which would support …

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 …

As part of Component 2 of the Adaptation Policy Framework (APF), Assessing Current
Vulnerability, this Technical Paper (TP) focuses on how to assess the historical interactions …

In this paper, we discuss two competing interpretations of vulnerability in the climate change
literature and consider the implications for both research and policy. The first interpretation …