Year: 2015
Type: report
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate interdisciplinary research on vulnerability indexes to climate change. The paper presents a systematized analysis of recent literature on agriculture, coastal areas, water resources, forests and health sectors. The paper examines in particular different aspects of vulnerability indexes to climate change, and emphasizes the importance of deriving vulnerability measures from sector-specific local studies after comparison of various types of sector-specific local institutional arrangement as coping strategies to mitigate climate impacts. The paper also explores possibilities to propose sectoral indices that can be applied systematically at the local level for the practitioners. The survey paper tries to provide pertinent background information regarding the choice of influential variables in the design of field studies and suggests future direction of in-depth empirical research on vulnerability to climate change.
DOI: 10.18235/0009259
Authors: Carlos E. Ludeña, Sang Won Yoon
Institution: Inter-American Development Bank
Language: English
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2301353295