Assessing Agricultural Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Change in Coastal Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: The adverse impacts of climate change exert mounting pressure on agriculture-dependent livelihoods of many developing and developed nations. However, integrated and spatially specific vulnerability assessments in less-developed countries like Bangladesh are rare, and insufficient to support the decision-making needed for climate-change resilience. Here, we develop an agricultural livelihood vulnerability index (ALVI) and an integrated approach, allowing for (i) mapping out the hot spots of vulnerability distribution; (ii) identifying key factors of spatially heterogeneous vulnerability; and (iii) supporting intervention planning for adaptation. This study conceptualized vulnerability as a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity by developing a composite index from a reliab

SUBMITTER: Hoque MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6888219 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature