VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION
Vulnerability to climate change is determined by exposure to risks, sensitivity to impacts, and ability to adapt. Adaptation involves adjusting systems in response to actual or expected climate changes to moderate harm or exploit opportunities. There are two types of adaptation: autonomous reactive adaptation and anticipatory proactive adaptation. Estimating future agricultural responses to climate change involves using scenarios to explore possible adaptive measures, as scenarios do not necessarily describe what will actually occur. Biophysical impacts of climate change include changes in crop and livestock conditions, precipitation, water resources, pests, and soil quality. These can result in changes to crops grown, farming types, production, income, employment, GDP contribution, and export earnings.
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VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION
- 1. VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION Reference notes from UNFCCC & IPCC Resource material - Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy CEO, GEO http://www.e-geo.org
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- Vulnerability concerns the risk of adverse things happening. Climate change is likely to have some benefits, but vulnerability is not concerned with that.
- The sustainable livelihoods approach focuses on livelihoods of the poor. It focuses on the assets and vulnerabilities of the poor. It is an approach for identifying development needs and for assessing the effectiveness of existing poverty reduction programs. The focus is very much on the current situation, i.e., near-term planning rather than long-term planning. The challenge in using approaches such as this to examine climate change is how to reconcile a focus on the short term with long-term climate change. More information can be obtained at: http://www.livelihoods.org/