Exploring climate change vulnerability across sectors and scenarios using indicators of impacts and coping capacity.

ABSTRACT: Addressing climate change vulnerability requires an understanding of both the level of climate impacts and the capacity of the exposed population to cope. This study developed a methodology for allowing users to explore vulnerability to changes in ecosystem services as a result of climatic and socio-economic changes. It focuses on the vulnerability of Europe across multiple sectors by combining the outputs of a regional integrated assessment (IA) model, the CLIMSAVE IA Platform, with maps of coping capacity based on the five capitals approach. The presented methodology enables stakeholder-derived socio-economic futures to be represented within a quantitative integrated modelling framework in a way that changes spatially and temporally with the socio-economic storyline. Vulnerability was ma

SUBMITTER: Dunford R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4457356 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature