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"Climate change" and vulnerability analysis: poor will become poorer
Ozer, Pierre
2013Topical day on vulnerability analysis : an interdisciplinary overview
 

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Keywords :
climate change; vulnerability; impact
Abstract :
[en] The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR5) considers new evidence of climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes and simulations using climate models. “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased”. “Changes in many extreme weather and climate events have been observed since about 1950. It is very likely that the number of cold days and nights has decreased and the number of warm days and nights has increased on the global scale”. “It is likely that the frequency of heat waves has increased”. “There are likely more land regions where the number of heavy precipitation events has increased than where it has decreased”. “The frequency or intensity of heavy precipitation events has likely increased”. In the meantime, it is now well known that climate change consequences (increasing magnitude and frequency of droughts, floods, storms and/or coastal erosion) will mainly impact the most vulnerable. Although there are multiple ways to define vulnerability, we here define vulnerability as the exposure of individuals or collective groups to livelihood stress as a result of the impacts of such climate change and consecutive socioeconomic and environmental changes. In the context of this paper, we will focus on natural disasters induced by “climate change”. We will travel across developing countries to illustrate the increasing vulnerability of the poor and the way they –sometimes– develop effective adaptation responses. We conclude that, for many reasons (mainly the protection of individual, financial and/or political interests), the poor will become poorer.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
Ozer, Pierre ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > DER Sc. et gest. de l'environnement (Arlon Campus Environ.) > DER Sc. et gest. de l'environnement (Arlon Campus Environ.)
Language :
English
Title :
"Climate change" and vulnerability analysis: poor will become poorer
Publication date :
07 November 2013
Number of pages :
121
Event name :
Topical day on vulnerability analysis : an interdisciplinary overview
Event organizer :
SCK-CEN Academy for Nuclear Science and Technology
Event place :
Mol, Belgium
Event date :
7 November, 2013
By request :
Yes
Audience :
International
References of the abstract :
Ozer, P. (2013). Climate change and vulnerability analysis: poor will become poorer. Topical day on vulnerability analysis : an interdisciplinary overview, SCK-CEN Academy for Nuclear Science and Technology, Mol, Belgium, 7 November, 2013, p. 5.
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