Vulnerability assessment models to drought: toward a conceptual framework

K Zarafshani, L Sharafi, H Azadi, S Van Passel - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
Drought is regarded as a slow-onset natural disaster that causes inevitable damage to water
resources and to farm life. Currently, crisis management is the basis of drought mitigation …

[PDF][PDF] IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Chapter 24 Asia

Y Hijioka, E Lin, JJ Pereira… - … : Part B: Regional …, 2014 - nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of
the Asian region over the past century (high confidence).{24.3} Increasing numbers of warm …

[HTML][HTML] A review of socio-economic vulnerability: The emergence of its theoretical concepts, models and methodologies

S Biswas, S Nautiyal - Natural Hazards Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The concept of vulnerability overarches as a multidisciplinary subject. The umbrella term is
widely used in several disciplines namely sociology, public health, geography, and disaster …

Climate vulnerability index-measure of climate change vulnerability to communities: a case of rural Lower Himalaya, India

R Pandey, SK Jha - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) is being proposed to assess climate change
vulnerability of communities with a case study. The index consists of household parameters …

Vulnerability of the South African farming sector to climate change and variability: An indicator approach

GA Gbetibouo, C Ringler, R Hassan - Natural resources forum, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyses the vulnerability of South African agriculture to climate change and
variability by developing a vulnerability index and comparing vulnerability indicators across …

Effectiveness and upscaling potential of climate smart agriculture interventions: Farmers' participatory prioritization and livelihood indicators as its determinants

U Das, MA Ansari, S Ghosh - Agricultural Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Adaptation to climate change is crucial to achieve food security and sustainable
agricultural development. United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on climate action …

Assessment of vulnerability to cyclones and floods in Odisha, India: a district-level analysis

CS Bahinipati - Current Science, 2014 - JSTOR
Most of the districts in Odisha, India are prone to both cyclones and floods. However, the
existing studies have assessed vulnerability mainly for the coastal districts, and are largely …

Drought vulnerability assessment: The case of wheat farmers in Western Iran

K Zarafshani, L Sharafi, H Azadi, G Hosseininia… - Global and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Drought, as a natural and slow-onset phenomenon, creates numerous damages to
agricultural communities. As a drought prone area in the Middle East, Iran has currently …

“We are feeling older than our age”: Vulnerability and adaptive strategies of aging people to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh

MA Malak, AM Sajib, MA Quader, H Anjum - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bangladesh has been affected by the adverse impact of natural hazards such as cyclones,
floods, erosion, salinity intrusion, and so on due to the changes in global climate variability …

An assessment of social vulnerability to climate change among the districts of Arunachal Pradesh, India

S Maiti, SK Jha, S Garai, A Nag, AK Bera, V Paul… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study highlighted the state of climate change induced social vulnerability of the
districts of Arunachal Pradesh. For the purpose of assessment of one of the most fragile …