Title: Vulnerability Assessment of People, Livelihoods and Ecosystems in the Ganga Basin
Abstract: Assessment of vulnerability to climate change mainly involves research into the exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity levels of a system in the presence of a specific impact, for example, rising frequency of floods. Vulnerability is a dynamic concept, as exposure to climate change and the capacity to cope with those impacts shifts across temporal and spatial scales. The governing factors of vulnerability assessment studies mainly include scale of assessment; the kind of impact or hazard...
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-09-13
Language: en
Type: article
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