This paper explored a new approach regarding social vulnerability to climate change, and
measured social vulnerability in three parts:(1) choosing relevant indicators of social …

This research offers a new framework for assessing social vulnerability to climate change. A
social vulnerability assessment trial was carried out for Chinese coastal cities at the county …

The cities of the Yangtze River Delta are densely populated with large amounts of wealth, for
which reason they are faced with greater disaster risks brought by climate change. As a …

The present research established a preliminary indicator assessment system satisfying
Chinese characters for exposure, sensitivity, and social adaptive capacity related to climate …

On the basis of the vulnerability-led approach, the Prevalent Community-level Vulnerability
Index (PCVI) was developed as a simple composite index used to represent community …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively measure the vulnerability level of the
whole rural social-ecological system in Yunnan Province and to analyze the spatial …

The impact of climate change on the coastal zones of Taiwan not only affects the marine
environment, ecology, and human communities whose economies rely heavily on marine …

Social vulnerability to climate change is increasingly being acknowledged, and proposals to
measure and manage it are emerging. Building upon this work, this paper proposes an …

Climate change poses additional obstacles to poverty eradication and social justice. Rising
temperatures, abnormal rainfall increases, storms, floods and droughts become more …

The relocation of chemical enterprises along the Yangtze River a necessary means of
ecological protection in the Yangtze River Basin. Vulnerability assessment provides a new …