DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1642-0
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84961135315
论文题名: Assessing vulnerability: an integrated approach for mapping adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure
作者: Weis S.W.M. ; Agostini V.N. ; Roth L.M. ; Gilmer B. ; Schill S.R. ; Knowles J.E. ; Blyther R.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2016
卷: 136, 期: 2018-03-04 起始页码: 615
结束页码: 629
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Disaster prevention
; Disasters
; Floods
; Hazards
; Mapping
; Climate change adaptation
; Coastal communities
; Community vulnerability
; Disaster management
; Small island developing state
; Social sensitivities
; Socio-economic vulnerability
; Vulnerability index
; Climate change
; adaptive management
; assessment method
; climate change
; GIS
; hazard management
; integrated approach
; natural hazard
; sensitivity analysis
; spatial data
; vulnerability
; Grenada [Windward Islands]
; Windward Islands [Lesser Antilles]
英文摘要: Making decisions and efficiently allocating resources to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities requires, among other things, an understanding of the factors that make a society vulnerable to climate and coastal hazards. One way of doing this is through the analysis of spatial data. We demonstrate how to apply GIS methods to spatially represent socioeconomic vulnerability in Grenada, a tropical small island developing state (SIDS) in the Eastern Caribbean. Our model combines spatial features representing variables of social sensitivity, community adaptive capacity, and community exposure to flooding in an integrated vulnerability index. We draw from the fields of climate change adaptation, disaster management, and poverty and development to select our variables enabling unique, cross sector, applications of our assessment. Mapping our results illustrates that vulnerability to flooding is not evenly distributed across the country and is not driven by the same factors in all areas of Grenada. This indicates a need for the implementation of different strategies in communities across Grenada to help effectively reduce vulnerability to climate and coastal hazards. The approach presented in this paper can be used to address national issues on climate change adaptation, disaster management, and poverty and development and more effectively utilize funds in order to reduce community vulnerability to natural hazards today and in the future. © 2016, The Author(s). Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84285
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: The Nature Conservancy, Global Marine Team, Arlington, VA, United States; The Nature Conservancy, Caribbean Program, Miami, FL, United States; The Nature Conservancy, Great Lakes – Michigan, 8 S Michigan Ave Suite 2301, Chicago, IL, United States
Recommended Citation:
Weis S.W.M.,Agostini V.N.,Roth L.M.,et al. Assessing vulnerability: an integrated approach for mapping adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure[J]. Climatic Change,2016-01-01,136(2018-03-04)