Vulnerability, poverty and the need for sustainable adaptation measures

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Sustainable adaptation: An oxymoron? (2011, background): “Eriksen and O’Brien (2007) show why this is not the case, highlighting how the experiences and states of vulnerability and poverty are distinct.”
Linking development to climate adaptation: Leveraging generic and specific capacities to reduce vulnerability to drought in NE Brazil (2016, background): “lack of income, education, health, political power) that shape vulnerability (Eriksen and O’Brien, 2007; Burch and Robinson, 2007; Lemos et al., 2007).”
Measuring household vulnerability to climate-induced stresses in pastoral rangelands of Kenya: Implications for resilience programming (2014, background): “In Kenya, there is a consensus that projected climate change will worsen food security, mainly through increased extremes and temporal or spatial shifts (Eriksen and O’Brien 2007; Herrero et al. 2010; Sherwood 2013).”
Exploring drought vulnerability in Africa: an indicator based analysis to be used in early warning systems (2013, background): “Although there are a number of studies focusing on local case evaluations of vulnerability (Eriksen et al., 2005; Eriksen and O’Brien, 2007; Anderson et al., 2012; van Huijgevoort et al., 2012; Welsh et al., 2013), the majority of the studies focuses mainly on the hazards, due in large part to the d”