Climate change vulnerability and adaptation of crop producers in sub-Saharan Africa: a review on concepts, approaches and methods

SB Bedeke - Environment, development and sustainability, 2023 - Springer
Climate change severely affects sub-Saharan African economies in several ways: increased
temperatures, erratic rainfall variability patterns, and recurrent droughts and floods. Such …

Mapping ecosystem services demand: A review of current research and future perspectives

S Wolff, CJE Schulp, PH Verburg - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Mapping the demand for ecosystem services (ES) has received increased attention in
scientific research and is seen as a relevant tool to inform conservation planning, land use …

[HTML][HTML] Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

A Popp, K Calvin, S Fujimori, P Havlik… - Global Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the future, the land system will be facing new intersecting challenges. While food demand,
especially for resource-intensive livestock based commodities, is expected to increase, the …

Sustainable livelihood framework-based indicators for assessing climate change vulnerability and adaptation for Himalayan communities

R Pandey, SK Jha, JM Alatalo, KM Archie, AK Gupta - Ecological indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the climate change vulnerability of Himalayan communities, and their
potential to adapt to these changes, through assessing their perceived reactions and …

[PDF][PDF] Vulnerability as concept, model, metric, and tool

B Wisner - Oxford research encyclopedia of natural hazard …, 2016 - academia.edu
Vulnerability is complex because it involves many characteristics of people and groups that
expose them to harm and limit their ability to anticipate, cope with, and recover from harm …

Understanding livelihood vulnerability to climate change: Applying the livelihood vulnerability index in Trinidad and Tobago

KU Shah, HB Dulal, C Johnson, A Baptiste - Geoforum, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper develops and tests the application of a Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) for
agricultural and natural resource-dependent communities in developing countries. The …

Supporting transformative climate adaptation: community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation in South Africa

G Ziervogel, J Enqvist, L Metelerkamp… - Climate Policy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Calls for transformative adaptation to climate change require attention to the type of capacity
building that can support it. Community-level capacity building can help to ensure ownership …

Climate change and poverty: vulnerability, impacts, and alleviation strategies

R Leichenko, JA Silva - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Poverty is widely understood to be a key factor that increases the propensity for individuals
and households to be harmed by climatic shocks and stresses. This review explores recent …

Assessing population vulnerability towards summer energy poverty: Case studies of Madrid and London

C Sanchez-Guevara, MN Peiró, J Taylor… - Energy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and duration of hot weather and its
associated adverse health effects. In dense urban areas, these phenomena will be …

[HTML][HTML] Vulnerability and its discontents: the past, present, and future of climate change vulnerability research

JD Ford, T Pearce, G McDowell, L Berrang-Ford… - Climatic change, 2018 - Springer
The concept of vulnerability is well established in the climate change literature,
underpinning significant research effort. The ability of vulnerability research to capture the …