Rapid regional-scale assessments of socio-economic vulnerability to climate change

Erin F Smith; Scott Lieske; Noni Keys; Timothy F Smith

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034016

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Rapid regional-scale assessments of socio-economic vulnerability to climate change

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Rapid regional-scale assessments of socio-economic vulnerability to climate change

Erin F Smith, Scott Lieske, Noni Keys and Timothy F Smith

Environmental Research Letters, Vol.11(034016), pp.1-11

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034016

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adaptation

resource dependency

sensitivity

secondary data

census data

regional decision-making

Australia

Assessing socio-economic vulnerability to climate change impacts to support regional decisionmaking is conceptually and practically challenging. We report on research that tested a rapid assessment approach of socio-economic vulnerability in Australia's natural resource management regions. The approach focuses on regionally important economic sectors, identified using existing datasets, which are likely to be sensitive to climate change impacts. Disaggregated spatial representations of factors known to be associated with vulnerability function as multiple lines of evidence for highlighting intra-regional hotspots of high potential vulnerability. Our results show that a small number of factors based upon contextually relevant empirical evidence offers a low-cost, rapid assessment process, which is readily transferable across regions and provides end-users with guidance for interpreting the results within the context of regional conditions

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Title: Rapid regional-scale assessments of socio-economic vulnerability to climate change
Authors: Erin F Smith (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Scott Lieske (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Noni Keys (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Timothy F Smith (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Environmental Research Letters, Vol.11(034016), pp.1-11
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034016
ISSN: 1748-9326
Copyright note: Copyright © 2016 The author. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
Organisation Unit: School of Tertiary Access - Legacy; School of Education and Tertiary Access; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450055902621
Output Type: Journal article