The Paradox of Vulnerability: States, Nationalism, and the Financial Crisis

Kennedy, Michael D.; Kopyciok, Svenja; Korhonen, Juho

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“…This study assumed that the hazard probability measured through HI could represent the climate vulnerability measured through CVI. The vulnerability paradox suggests that long-term exposure to elevated levels of climate extremes generate asymmetry in coping capacity and can foster short-term resilience [34]. Hence, future work would need to derive a composite index with its vulnerability, hazard, adaptive/coping capacity of the population and exposure level at a national and urban scale to compare CVI with heatwave risks for assessing SDG progress.…”

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“…This is more so because a CVI that does not include measures of the primary climate change risks/threats (in this study, heatwaves) may fail to identify regions of greatest vulnerability to climate change at the intersection of climate extremes and non-climate, structural and social-economic factors that increase sensitivity. Missing the primary extreme events in conjunction with the contextual factors like differential adaptive capacity that fosters resilience may underestimate the vulnerability [34] and its subsequent undermining of the sustainable development goals.…”

Section: Heatwaves Weakening Sdg Progress Across Indian Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lethal heatwaves are challenging India’s sustainable development

2023

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Due to the unprecedented burdens on public health, agriculture, and other socio-economic and cultural systems, climate change-induced heatwaves in India can hinder or reverse the country’s progress in fulfilling the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Moreover, the Indian government’s reliance on its Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI), which may underestimate the impact of heatwaves on the country’s developmental efforts. An analytical evaluation of heat index (HI) with CVI shows that more than 90% of the country is at extremely cautious or dangerous levels of adversely impacting adaptive livelihood capacity, food grains yield, vector-borne disease spread and urban sustainability. The results also show by examining Delhi’s urban heat risk that heatwaves will critically hamper SDG progress at the urban scale. Linking HI with CVI identifies more of India’s vulnerability and provides an opportunity to rethink India’s climate adaptation policies through international cooperation in designing holistic vulnerability assessment methodologies. The conclusion emphasizes the urgent need to improve extreme weather impact assessment by combining multiple layers of information within the existing climate vulnerability measurement frameworks that can account for the co-occurrence and collision of climate change events and non-climate structural SDG interventions.

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Section: Heatwaves Weakening Sdg Progress Across Indian Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%