Global vulnerability analysis
Global vulnerability analysis
Climate can have great influence on our lives as shown by the great damage and loss of life in events such as Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the 1999 cyclone in Orissa, India and the flooding in Mozambique in 2000. Such events could be intensified by climate change, making this issue a major challenge for the 21st Century. This widespread concern has generated a global policy response including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), whose signatories are committed, among other things, to “avoid dangerous climate change”. The key policy issue is the relative merits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions (usually termed mitigation) and/or adapting to the impacts of climate change, with a mixed response being most realistic.
This following description firstly outlines the key concepts of global vulnerability assessment. It then presents some selected methods of analysis, considering coastal population and flood risk, adaptation to increased flood risk and wetland loss. The results together with their validation and use are then considered, including the differences between the methods used. Lastly, possible developments in the near future are considered.
9781402019036
486-491
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Nicholls, R.J.
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Hoozemans, F.M.J.
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2005
Nicholls, R.J.
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Hoozemans, F.M.J.
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Nicholls, R.J. and Hoozemans, F.M.J.
(2005)
Global vulnerability analysis.
In,
Schwartz, M.
(ed.)
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science.
(Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series)
Dortrecht, Netherlands.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, .
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Climate can have great influence on our lives as shown by the great damage and loss of life in events such as Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the 1999 cyclone in Orissa, India and the flooding in Mozambique in 2000. Such events could be intensified by climate change, making this issue a major challenge for the 21st Century. This widespread concern has generated a global policy response including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), whose signatories are committed, among other things, to “avoid dangerous climate change”. The key policy issue is the relative merits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions (usually termed mitigation) and/or adapting to the impacts of climate change, with a mixed response being most realistic.
This following description firstly outlines the key concepts of global vulnerability assessment. It then presents some selected methods of analysis, considering coastal population and flood risk, adaptation to increased flood risk and wetland loss. The results together with their validation and use are then considered, including the differences between the methods used. Lastly, possible developments in the near future are considered.
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Published date: 2005
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F.M.J. Hoozemans
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M. Schwartz
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