2007
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2007.9685639
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Why different interpretations of vulnerability matter in climate change discourses

Abstract: In this article, we discuss how two interpretations of vulnerability in the climate change literature are manifestations of different discourses and framings of the climate change problem. The two differing interpretations, conceptualized here as 'outcome vulnerability' and 'contextual vulnerability', are linked respectively to a scientific framing and a human-security framing. Each framing prioritizes the production of different types of knowledge, and emphasizes different types of policy responses to climate… Show more

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“…Critical and alternative explanations of vulnerability emphasize deeper social, political, and environmental determinants (Wisner, Blaikie, Cannon, & Davis, 2004). They emphasize the role of context and the role of local politics in the production of vulnerability beyond the simple outcome of a climatic event (O'Brien, Eriksen, Nygaard, & Schjolden, 2007).…”
Section: Contextualizing the Nepal Case In The Wider Climate Policy Dmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Critical and alternative explanations of vulnerability emphasize deeper social, political, and environmental determinants (Wisner, Blaikie, Cannon, & Davis, 2004). They emphasize the role of context and the role of local politics in the production of vulnerability beyond the simple outcome of a climatic event (O'Brien, Eriksen, Nygaard, & Schjolden, 2007).…”
Section: Contextualizing the Nepal Case In The Wider Climate Policy Dmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A reading of the NAPA shows that what characterizes the discussion, analyses, and proposed responses to climate change is a view of vulnerability that firmly frames it as 'outcome vulnerability' (O'Brien et al, 2007). From this stance, vulnerability is seen as a property of locations or districts and not people, in relation to what are seen to be the main climate hazards.…”
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“…Le risque, notion polysémique, partagée par de nombreuses disciplines, a de nombreuses définitions (Füssel et Klein, 2006;O'Brien et al, 2007). "Une quantité de définitions ont été proposées par les géographes et les autres disciplines depuis des années, avec des lacunes persistantes, des redondances, des confusions, quand ce n'est pas des contradictions entre les disciplines" (Moser, 2010).…”
Section: La Notion De Risque: Une Notion Polysémiqueunclassified
“…Risk and the methods by which it is assessed and managed are manifold but inform responses and policies to events and processes (such as coastal erosion and sea-level rise), and can therefore be seen as a governing technique (Dean 1998, O'Brien et al 2007, Stanley 2013. The rationale for our study originates from the prevailing focus on biophysical risks and monetary losses in relation to current and anticipated processes of coastal change in which little weight has been given to how these changes are experienced at the local level.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…However, they do not tell us what the loss of coast means for affected people and their livelihoods. A body of research has critiqued the fact that economic, technical, and physical criteria have come to define what is considered to be at risk and how adaptation to environmental change should proceed (Smit and Wandel 2006, O'Brien et al 2007, 2010, Adger et al 2009. A key concern raised by scholars is that the framing of risk (as a probabilistic measure of vulnerability) fails to incorporate nonquantifiable impacts of environmental change related to conceptions of well-being, identity, and culture (Adger et al 2009, O'Brien and Wolf 2010, Coulthart 2012, Graham et al 2013.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%