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Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptation in the IPCC framework

Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptation in the IPCC framework. Vulnerabilities of the Carbon-Climate-Human System Patricia Romero Lankao Paris, June 2005. Goal. Characterize “vulnerability” related concepts used by the IPCC community to:

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Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptation in the IPCC framework

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  1. Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptation in the IPCC framework Vulnerabilities of the Carbon-Climate-Human System Patricia Romero Lankao Paris, June 2005

  2. Goal Characterize “vulnerability” related concepts used by the IPCC community to: • Underscore commonalities and differences in language/approach between both IPCC and Carbon communities • Explore venues for an approach integrating socio – natural spheres and interactions between their components (a not well developed area of research)

  3. IPCC’s approach: vulnerability (adaptation) • One definition1, propensity of groups, systems, persons to suffer harm, (anticipate), cope with, resist and recover from impacts of CC and other stressors2 • Context (locality) specific (scale matters)3 • Depends on adaptive capacity, sensitivity and exposure to the impacts of CC, also related to the distribution of sources and prior stressors (history of group, system, …) • Key research issue: understanding its (social and natural) causal and internal dimensions (coping actions) (multiple disciplines)

  4. IPCC’s approach, adaptive capacity • Ability of a “system” or group to evolve to accommodate CC or expand range of variability with which it can cope • Vector of resources and assets representing a resource to draw on to undertake adaptation • Unevenly distributed, related to: assets1 available to cope with CC, distribution of resources within a population, and institutions mediating exposures and coping with climate change

  5. IPCC’s approach: resilience • Capacity for positive adaptation despite adversity1 • Three features of socio-ecological resilience relevant for an approach integrating socio – natural spheres: a) ability to buffer disturbance, b) capability to self-organize, and adaptation c) capacity for learning and learning how to learn, for communicating 2

  6. A new approach to vulnerability • Multidisciplinary, recognizing that V: • Caused by socio-natural interactions and a property of natural and human systems • Two dimensions: external (structural) and internal (agency) • Related to multiple stressors operating at diverse scales • Scale dependant • Demanding hence alternative tools (e.g. vulnerability assessments)

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