The Dynamics of Rural Vulnerability to Global Change: The Case of southern Africa

By R. Leichenko, K. O’Brien. 2002

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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Adaptation and development: Livelihoods and climate change in Subarnabad, Bangladesh (2009, background): “mental and socio-economic and political forces (Kelly and Adger, 2000; Leichenko and O’Brien, 2002; Smit and Wandel, 2006).”
Land-Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities, Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science (2008, background): “Examples of the less empowered and more vulnerable include communal farmers in northern Mexico (128, 141), female-headed households on former homelands in South Africa (139, 142), and the urban poor in hurricane-prone cities in the American South (136, 143).”
Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: Scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique (2008, background): “In reality, a combination of these factors results in a dynamic on-going pattern and thus adaptation is as a process influenced by broader economic, political and social forces, involving interrelated but different actors (Bryant et al., 2000; Leichenko and O’Brien, 2002).”
Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: climate change and globalization in India (2004, background): “It has been acknowledged that exposure to multiple stressors is a real concern, particularly in developing countries, where food security is influenced by political, economic, and social conditions in addition to climatic factors (Leichenko and O’Brien, 2002).”
Analysis of vulnerability and resilience to climate change induced shocks in North Shewa, Ethiopia (2012, neutral): “These levels of vulnerability may be analyzed at local [11,38,39], national [40], regional [28,41], and global [37] scales.”
Characterising the nature of household vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana (2013, background): “Increased literacy can increase the capacity of the household to access climate information, which can subsequently enhance the adaptive capacity of the household to buffer against negative impacts induced by climate change and variability (see Leichenko and O’Brien 2002).”