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ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING & ASSESSMENT
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 1-16Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-008-9179-x
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Vulnerability; Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Formalisation; System theory
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KL 611/14]
- Research Directorate-General of the European Commission [511179]
- START Visiting Scientist Program
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There is confusion regarding the notion of vulnerability in the climate change scientific community. Recent research has identified a need for formalisation, which would support accurate communication and the elimination of misunderstandings that result from the use of ambiguous terminology. Moreover, a formal framework of vulnerability is a prerequisite for computational approaches to its assessment. This paper presents an attempt at developing such a formal framework. We see vulnerability as a relative concept in the sense that accurate statements about vulnerability are possible only if one clearly specifies (1) the entity that is vulnerable, (2) the stimulus to which it is vulnerable and (3) the preference criteria to evaluate the outcome of the interaction between the entity and the stimulus. We relate the resulting framework to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conceptualisation of vulnerability and two recent vulnerability studies.
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