There is growing demand among stakeholders across public and private institutions for
spatially-explicit information regarding vulnerability to climate change at the local scale …

Climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) can inform adaptation policy and help in
incorporating climate futures in planning. The literature on CCVA stems from a number of …

Aggregate measures that capture multiple aspects of socio-ecological vulnerability in a
single or small number of vulnerability indices can produce vulnerability maps that act as …

Introduction: In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of
tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters …

Under the dual stress of climate change and human activities, ecological problems such as
vegetation degradation, soil erosion, and desertification have disturbed the balance of the …

Environmental management of an area describes a policy for its systematic and sustainable
environmental protection. In the present study, regional environmental vulnerability …

Mapping social vulnerability is a prominent way to identify regions in which the lack of
capacity to cope with the impacts of weather extremes is nested in the social setting, aiding …

Regional resilience is a new paradigm to explain the local system ability to cope with a
negative event, tolerating the effect produced by the perturbing action. The first objective of …

Ecological environment in the arid areas of Northwest China is very vulnerable. Ecological
vulnerability is considered to be one of the important indicators to measure the status and …

Due to the intensification of large-scale mining and of human activities, the ecological
integrity of resource-based cities has been severely damaged. Studying its ecological …