Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Disasters: A Conceptual Overview

By F. Yamin, A. Rahman, S. Huq. 2005

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(MDGs) and to secure fairertrade as part of the Doha Development Agenda willalso be strengthened in 2005. After the mediaheadlines have faded, what impact will theseframeworks have on the lives of the poor and othersvulnerable to climate impacts? Will climatevulnerabilities be integrated in all these frameworkswith lasting benefits? Will the interests and voicesof those vulnerable to impacts be heard? Why areMDGs, climate change and trade processes runningin parallel tracks? And what can be done to linkthese processes synergistically in favour of thosevulnerable to climate change? These questions were central to the LinkingClimate Adaptation (LCA) Project that aimed toensure that poor people

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Assessing household vulnerability to climate change: The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia (2009, background): “According to Yamin et al. (2005), the disaster community defines vulnerability as conditions that are determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes, and that increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of a hazard.”
Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa (2006, background): “, 2004), the IIED-led consultation on the key researchable issues concerning climate change and development (Huq and Reid, 2005), a synthesis on linking climate adaptation (Yamin et al., 2005a; 2005b), and the synthesis of Mortimore and Manvell (2005) outlining the contributions made by projects fun”
Adaptation and development: Livelihoods and climate change in Subarnabad, Bangladesh (2009, background): “focused on the poorest individuals of the community, given that people in circumstances of poverty are widely considered to be those least able to cope with environmental stresses and in greatest need of adaptation (Kates, 2000; Huq et al., 2003; Yamin et al., 2005).”
Addressing Human Vulnerability to Climate Change: Toward a 'No Regrets' Approach (2009, unknown): “…recognition of the role of such poverty traps and the trade-offs between short-term coping and long-term productivity and adaptation are important for adaptation and poverty alleviation, especially as the impacts of climate change accumulate over time (Davies, 1993; Yamin, Rahman, and Huq, 2005).”
Entrenchment or Enhancement: Could Climate Change Adaptation Help to Reduce Chronic Poverty? (2009, background): “This social conception of vulnerability emphasises the need to take broader elements of vulnerability into account, such as human security, empowerment, corruption, or access to natural resources (Swift 1989; Yamin et al. 2005; Klein et al. 2007).”
Vulnerability, poverty and the need for sustainable adaptation measures (2007, background): “In many cases, development is contributing to increased vulnerability through a variety of socio-economic, political, environmental and cultural factors (Yamin et al., 2005).”