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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
10. Vulnerability Assessment and Scenarios
Authors : Dr. Stefan Kienberger, Dr. Craig W. Hutton, Dr. Fiifi Amoako Johnson
Published in: Applied Geoinformatics for Sustainable Integrated Land and Water Resources Management (ILWRM) in the Brahmaputra River basin
Publisher: Springer India
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Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the assessment of socio-economic vulnerability to floods in the context of climate change in the Salzach catchment (UDRB) as well as for the floodplains in Assam (UBRB). The assessment adapts a conceptual framework of the IPCC defining vulnerability. Within both assessments spatially-explicit and expert-based approaches are applied to provide an integrative assessment linking to ILWRM. Next to the assessment of present-day conditions, future scenarios of socio-economic vulnerability are provided building on the SRES framework. Socio-economic issues are major drivers and subjects of climate change and it is inevitable to analyse them within an integrative assessment through the application of a vulnerability approach.