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Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change - Making Research Useful for Adaptation Decision Making and Policy (Hardcover)
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Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change - Making Research Useful for Adaptation Decision Making and Policy (Hardcover)
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Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global
environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main
imperative of research and international action. However, much of
the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly
into decision making and policy, creating a gap between the
knowledge created by researchers and what is required by decision
makers. This book seeks to rectify this problem and bridge the gap.
It discusses vulnerability as the central theme and brings together
many different applications from disaster studies, climate change
impact studies and several other fields and provides the most
comprehensive synthesis of definitions, theories, formalization and
applications to date, illustrated with examples from different
disciplines, regions and periods, and from local through to
regional, national and international levels. Case study topics
cover sea level rise, vulnerability to changes in ecosystem
services, assessing the vulnerability of human health and 'double
exposure' to climate change and trade liberalization amongst other
issues. Research outcomes stress that science-policy dialogues must
be transparent to be effective and concentrate on a mutual
understanding of the concepts used. A key research finding is that
the most useful information for decision makers is that which shows
the separate causes and drivers of vulnerability, rather than
presenting vulnerability in an aggregated form. The book concludes
with a unifying framework for analysing integrated methodologies of
vulnerability assessment and guiding how research and policy can be
linked to reduce vulnerability.
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