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> home > programs & activities > advanced institute > institute 3 Capacity Building Projects: Global Change Advanced Institutes Institute 3: Assessing Vulnerability to Global Climate Change {institue website} The Advanced Institute on Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change is focused on utilizing selected analytic tools to build the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct research on vulnerability to global environmental change. The intensive training seminar was held 3-21 May 2004 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. This seminar explored questions regarding the susceptibility of people, places, and systems to harm caused by the multiple stresses arising from climate change. Topics included the causes of vulnerability, the ways in which global climate change affects social, economic, political, and environmental systems, and the extent to which these systems are able to cope with or adapt to the stresses of global climate change. The seminar was followed by the initiation of twenty research projects on vulnerability by Institute fellows. The institute projects are: Intervulnerability Assessment: An Innovative Framework to Assess Vulnerability to Interacting Impacts of Climate Change and Globalization Current and future sustainability of rural livelihoods: A case study in the community Isla Mendez within the Salvadoran bay-mangrove ecosystem Vulnerability to Global Environmental Changes in Argentina: ex-ante Flood Risk Management Strategies Assessment of Human Vulnerability to Environmental Changes in the Carpathian Mountains (Romania) Assessing the Vulnerability of Fadama (Floodplain) Agriculture to Climate Variability and Change: A Case Study of Semi-Arid Northern Nigeria Response Model of Marginalized Rural Households, Natural Resource Use and Biodiversity in a Sporadic Drought Prone Semi-arid Environment Participatory Approach to Addressing Local Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Variability and Water Stress in the Uttaranchal Region of India A Dynamic Approach to the Assessment of Farmers’ Vulnerability to No-Flow Events in the Lower Yellow River, 1990-1999 Land Use Dynamics and Vulnerability in Peri-Urban Areas to Urban Ecological Change: A case study of Kampala, Uganda Vulnerability Assessment of Forest Ecosystems and Rural Livelihoods in South West Nigeria |
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The Institutional Dimensions of Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa with Particular Reference to Drought Disaster Risk Spatial Determinants of Resource Condition: A Case Study of South Eastern Nigeria Assessment of Vulnerability, Impact and Adaptation to Malaria in the Western Highlands of Kenya The Case of Santa Catalina Coastal Community, Uruguay Reducing Economic and Financial Vulnerability to Natural Disasters in Mexico: Poverty, Agriculture and Development Issues Assessing adaptive capacity (ability to respond) to tropical cyclones in the East coast of India: A pilot study of public response to cyclone warning information (Paper 1) Vulnerability of Water-Induced Disasters in Nepal with Reference to Global Climate Change Local Strategies to Cope with Drought Risk and Vulnerability in Northeast Brazil: a Comparative Analysis. Vulnerability of China’s Water Sector to Global Environmental Change |