Climate vulnerability index - measure of climate change vulnerability to communities: a case of rural Lower Himalaya, India

Pandey, Rajiv; Jha, S. K.

doi:10.1007/s11027-011-9338-2

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“…Vulnerability assessments have evolved from risk factors to a multidimensional concept, including physical, socioeconomic, environmental and institutional factors. Specific frameworks have been defined and recommended for more effective vulnerability assessments such as [20] [21] [22]. In conceptualizing vulnerability, specific interest of some of them is on climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, global environmental change and sustainability science.…”

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Households Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Variability Induced Water Stress on Downstream Kaduna River Basin

Okafor¹,

Sadiku²,

Okhimamhe³

et al. 2017

AJCC

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Water stress is one of the risks emanating from worsening climatic variations. It poses serious threats on vulnerable continents, people and livelihoods globally. However, little information is available on how the specific climate threat is impacting people's livelihoods and water resources on different temporal and spatial scales in Nigeria basins. This study aimed at investigating household vulnerability and adaptation to water stress induced by climate variability on a downstream Kaduna River basin with the goal of supporting/facilitating climate change adaptation. The research analyzed hydro-climatic data and employed vulnerability-based framework consistent with stakeholders' participatory approach, within the context of current climate conditions experienced, and/or water stress conditions already affecting household livelihoods in six communities at three study sites; Shiroro, Gbako and Lavun, and adaptive strategies engaged to deal with water stress. Findings revealed that households have been exposed and experienced changes in water availability through variations in rainfall, temperature and runoff. Consequently, these changes have impacted on food production and livelihoods. Households have individually and collectively employed adaptation techniques which are reactive, short-term indigenous coping strategies usually adopted during periods of stress to minimize water-related vulnerabilities. The study demonstrated how an understanding of the local household vulnerabilities will enable the recognition of early indicators of water stress in addition to the occurrence of extreme events. Overall, households' vulnerability decreased from one village to another due to differences in sensitivity to stress, access to resources and local institutional capacity. Resilience of households can be increased through early warning system during flood

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Households Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Variability Induced Water Stress on Downstream Kaduna River Basin

Okafor¹,

Sadiku²,

Okhimamhe³

et al. 2017

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“…Vulnerability is a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity (IPCC 2007;Polsky et al 2007) and depends on the relationships among these three dimensions (Yuan et al 2013), which can be described as follows (Pandey and Jha 2012): Vulnerability ¼ f ðExposure; Sensitivity; Adaptive capacityÞ:…”

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“…He et al (2012) assessed the vulnerability of the areas of China that could be affected by freezing weather conditions from 2001 to 2020 and from 2001 to 2050 using seven indices. Pandey and Jha (2012) assessed the vulnerability to climate change to communities using a climate Vulnerability index taking rural Lower Himalaya in India as an example. Yuan et al (2013) evaluated China's regional vulnerability to drought and proposed some policy recommendations to alleviate the impacts of drought under climate change.…”

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“…Basically, regional vulnerability to climate change was considered as a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity (Brenkert and Malone 2005;IPCC 2007;Pandey and Jha 2012;Liu et al 2013). Therefore, there is a need to understand the relationships among these three elements and reduce regional vulnerability to climate change by altering those in which change is possible.…”

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Assessment of vulnerability to climate change in the Inner Mongolia steppe at a county scale from 1980 to 2009

Hou

et al. 2014

Rangel. J.

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Abstract. Most of Inner Mongolia is covered with natural grassland and is highly sensitive to global climate change because of the physical geography, the highly variable climate, and the complicated socioeconomic conditions. The climate is generally wetter in the east becoming drier towards the west of the region. Using a Pressure-State-Response model to select climate-related assessment indicators, a vulnerability assessment to climate change framework of counties in Inner Mongolia was built, which included three layers and 17 indicators. Climate change vulnerability of eight counties in the steppe area of Inner Mongolia was assessed from 1980 to 2009. The results showed that in the past 30 years, climate change vulnerability of eight counties has decreased with the decrease more pronounced after 2000. The lowest value for vulnerability was in 2008. The vulnerability of the western region was higher than that of the eastern region. Counties with a desert ecological system had a higher vulnerability than counties with steppe. Under the background of exposure increasing and sensitivity slightly decreasing, a continuing significant improvement in adaptive capacity is the key reason for a reduction invulnerability of the Inner Mongolia steppe area to climate change. The volatility of the climate on an inter-annual scale can cause changes in vulnerability between years. With the development of the rural economy and increases in national investment in the environment, the vulnerability of the Inner Mongolian steppe has been significantly reduced, but, overall, the vulnerability remains high. Most of the counties are moderately vulnerable, some counties are seriously vulnerable, even extremely vulnerable, and strong measures need to be adopted to strengthen the ability to adapt to climate change.

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“…While at the end of the 1990s economists only tried to identify those sectors that were the most vulnerable to any change (Dercon, S. and Krishnan, P. 1996;Scoones, I. 1998), in the last few years, due to improvements in modelling, the number of publications providing numerical analysis of economic and social impacts on regional level has been continuously increasing (Scott, D. et al 2008;Aaheim, A. et al 2012;Pandey, R. and Jha, S.K. 2012;Warner, K. and Geest, K. 2013).…”

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Geographical analysis of climate vulnerability at a regional scale: the case of the Southern Great Plain in Hungary

2017

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This paper provides an example for regional scale analysis of climate vulnerability incorporating environmental as well as socio-economic indicators. Researches have focused on different aspects of climate vulnerability so far, but usually there is little connection between the physical and social dimensions. Our study provides a more complex analysis, which builds on the application of international indices which have been used on the local and regional levels very rarely. In our research we combined physical and human geographical approaches and research techniques. The physical geographical assessment is based on indicators referring to ground water levels and vegetation production, while the human geographical side of the analysis focuses on economic and social sensitivity, adaptation and exposure indices, combined in the so-called socio-economic climate vulnerability index. In the analysis we tried to figure out the most sensitive areas in the Hungarian Southern Great Plain region. The main findings of the study are "hot spots" which coincide on both analyses, therefore, the most sensitive areas under current climate change conditions could be delimited. This study also demonstrates that the resolution of global climate change vulnerability indices is not suitable for regional scale analysis because of the significant territorial differences. Therefore, local or regional scale assessments are needed for the preparation of strategies for the elaboration of mitigation and adaptation policies.

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Climate vulnerability index - measure of climate change vulnerability to communities: a case of rural Lower Himalaya, India

Cited by 235 publications

References 30 publications

Households Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Variability Induced Water Stress on Downstream Kaduna River Basin

Households Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Variability Induced Water Stress on Downstream Kaduna River Basin

Assessment of vulnerability to climate change in the Inner Mongolia steppe at a county scale from 1980 to 2009

Geographical analysis of climate vulnerability at a regional scale: the case of the Southern Great Plain in Hungary

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