Using a novel climate-water conflict vulnerability index to capture double exposures in Lake Chad.

ABSTRACT: Climate variability is amongst an array of threats facing agricultural livelihoods, with its effects unevenly distributed. With resource conflict being increasingly recognised as one significant outcome of climate variability and change, understanding the underlying drivers that shape differential vulnerabilities in areas that are double-exposed to climate and conflict has great significance. Climate change vulnerability frameworks are rarely applied in water conflict research. This article presents a composite climate-water conflict vulnerability index based on a double exposure framework developed from advances in vulnerability and livelihood assessments. We apply the index to assess how the determinants of vulnerability can be useful in understanding climate variability and water confli

SUBMITTER: Okpara UT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7114970 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature