The Livelihood Vulnerability Index: A pragmatic approach to assessing risks from climate variability and change—A case study in Mozambique

By Micah B. Hahn, A. Riederer, S. Foster. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Shunbo Yao
2. N. Hương
3. Shah Fahad
4. A. Dougill
5. P. Antwi‐Agyei
6. Ramatu M. Al-Hassan
7. B. Smit
8. S. Barrett

In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Dougill
2. Shah Fahad
3. Shunbo Yao
4. N. Hương
5. Jun He
6. Ramatu M. Al-Hassan
7. P. Antwi‐Agyei
8. B. Smit

In Soil Science

1. Shunbo Yao
2. N. Hương
3. Shah Fahad
4. A. Dougill
5. P. Antwi‐Agyei
6. Jun He
7. Ramatu M. Al-Hassan
8. B. Smit

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• Local level climate justice? Adaptation finance and vulnerability reduction (2013, background): “Indicator approaches to vulnerability assessment take socioeconomic and physical parameters as values to compare exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate change (Adger, 1999; Hahn et al., 2009; Sullivan and Meigh, 2005; Deressa et al., 2008).”
• Characterising the nature of household vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana (2013, background): “Vulnerability assessments have been used to explore the complex set of interactions between humans and their socio-physical environments (Hahn et al. 2009).”
• The Multidimensional Livelihood Vulnerability Index – an instrument to measure livelihood vulnerability to change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (2017, methodology): “To implement the above livelihood vulnerability definition for the household level, we built on the approach of Hahn et al. (2009), who developed a Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) that combines the IPCC vulnerability framework with the sustainable livelihoods approach (Chambers & Conway, 1992;…”
• Assessing the Livelihood Vulnerability of Rural Indigenous Households to Climate Changes in Central Nepal, Himalaya (2019, methodology): “[23], where the study was conducted in Mozambique.”
• Applying IPCC 2014 framework for hazard-specific vulnerability assessment under climate change (2019, background): “Most vulnerability studies continue to use the IPCC 2007 definition of vulnerability (Mussetta et al 2017) and directly account for exposure component to assess vulnerability (Metzger et al 2006,Hahn et al 2009, Lung et al 2013, Simane et al 2016, Kumar et al 2016).”
• Livelihood vulnerability index analysis : an approach to study vulnerability in the context of Bihar : original research (2014, methodology): “The computation of each indicator value followed the process of standardisation adopted from the computation of the life expectancy index of the HDI (Hahn et al. 2009).”
• Assessing household livelihood vulnerability to climate change: The case of Northwest Vietnam (2019, methodology): “We added five major components besides the seven that contained the LVI developed by Hahn et al. (2009).”
• Application of Livelihood Vulnerability Index in Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability in Northern Ghana (2013, methodology): “Several variables are used to capture the level of exposure to natural disasters and climate variability, adaptation capacity of households and their sensitivity to climate change impacts (Hahn et al., 2009).”
• Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods (2010, background): “communities [41–44] as well as impacts and livelihood responses [45,46].”
• Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “2001; Hesselberg and Yaro 2006; Codjoe and Owusu 2011), and • the effects of global environmental change on the poor (Hahn et al. 2009).”
• Explaining the 'hungry farmer paradox': Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets (2014, background): “Livelihood surveys that addressed food security among smallholder coffee farmers and rural residents in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala used similar questions (Morris et al., 2013b; Hahn et al., 2009; Fujisaka, 2007).”
• Tourism and Hospitality industry resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from England (2021, methodology): “From the calculation of the BRCS (Table 4), it is evident that, with a score of 0.593, tourism-dependent businesses are highly vulnerable; however, they fared somewhat better than the retail (0.613) and personal services (0.639) sectors.”
• Understanding livelihood vulnerability to climate change: Applying the livelihood vulnerability index in Trinidad and Tobago (2013, methodology): “Notes: All comparisons are to the LVI methodology described in Hahn et al. (2009); unless otherwise stated as ‘‘new’’ or ‘‘modified’’ indictors are adapted/adopted from Hahn”