A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science

By Benjamin L Turner, R. Kasperson, P. Matson, J. McCarthy, R. Corell, L. Christensen, Noelle Eckley, J. Kasperson, Amy Luers, M. Martello and 3 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Climate change adaptation: factors influencing Chinese smallholder farmers’ perceived self-efficacy and adaptation intent (2016, background): “The vulnerability of a system is the product of both its exposure and sensitivity to biophysical and social stressors, perturbations, and processes, and in part arises from its capacity to adapt (Turner et al. 2003).”
Adaptation of Human Coping Strategies in a Small Island Society in the SW Pacific—50 Years of Change in the Coupled Human–Environment System on Bellona, Solomon Islands (2008, background): “In recent years, the threat of climatic change has brought the concept of vulnerability to the centre of debates on sustainability (Kates et al. 2001; Turner et al. 2003).”
Mapping South African farming sector vulnerability to climate change and variability: A subnational assessment (2009, background): “According to Turner et al. (2003b), a full vulnerability assessment following these frameworks may lie well beyond the capacities of most research efforts.”
The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research (2006, background): “…from analyses focusing either on ecological systems or on social systems toward holistic conceptualizations and models of socio-ecological systems (SESs) (Gallopı´n et al., 1989), social–ecological systems (Berkes and Folke, 1998), or coupled human–environment systems (Turner et al., 2003a, b).”
Integration of ecological and socio-economic factors to assess global vulnerability to wildfire (2014, background): “The latter is summarized by the concept of vulnerability, which may be defined as: ‘The characteristics and circumstances of a community, system or asset that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard’ (Turner et al., 2003; UNISDR, 2009).”
Successful adaptation to climate change across scales (2005, background): “Increasing the resilience of social and ecological systems (Adger, 1999; Turner et al., 2003; Luers et al., 2003; Tompkins and Adger, 2004) can be achieved through generic actions which not only aim to enhance well-being and increase access to resources or insurance, but also include specific measur”
Crops and climate change: progress, trends, and challenges in simulating impacts and informing adaptation. (2009, result): “Thus far, however, it has proven difficult to ‘up-scale’ results from these field studies, and current attempts have only generated quite general and qualitative conceptual frameworks (Turner et al., 2003; Ericksen, 2008).”
Exploring the relationships between urbanization trends and climate change vulnerability (2015, background): “Building on, for example, Adger (2006), Cardona et al. (2012), Wisner et al. (2004), Turner et al. (2003), Eakin and Luers (2006), Bohle (2001) and Birkmann et al. (2013) we could say that vulnerability is a central element in the social construction of risk.”
Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory (2008, background): “connotations are also frequent in the contemporary scholarly debate about vulnerability (Turner et al. 2003), resilience (Gunderson and Holling 2002), the role of institutional redundancy (Low et al.”
Cause and response: vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene (2014, background): “as ‘adaptive capacity’ as framed by Yohe and Tol (2002), provide a partial converse of vulnerability (Brooks 2003, Ribot 2011).”
Enhancing the Ostrom social-ecological system framework through formalization (2014, background): “These include, for example, the SES vulnerability framework (Turner et al. 2003) and resilience thinking (Folke et al. 2010), to name just two.”
Application of Livelihood Vulnerability Index in Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability in Northern Ghana (2013, background): “Quantitative applications of the risk-hazard model in assessing climatic impacts generally emphasize exposure and sensitivity to environmental stressors, and works from the hazard to the impacts (Turner et al., 2003).”