Table of Contents
Forewords by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Rik Leemans
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
1 Vulnerability Research and Assessment to Support Adaptation and
Mitigation: Common Themes from the Diversity of Approaches
Anthony G.Patt, Dagmar Schr ter, A.Cristina de la Vega-Leiner
and Richard J.T. Klein
2 The House is Both Empty and Sad: Social Vulnerability, Environmental
Disturbance, Economic Change and the Irish Potato Famine
Evan D.G. Fraser
3 Vulnerability Assessments in the Developed World:The UK and
Norway
Ian Holman and Lars Otto N‘ss
4 Vulnerability Assessments in the Developing World: Mozambique
and South Africa
Siri Eriksen, Coleen Vogel, Gina Ziervogel, Franziska Steinbruch and
Florence Nazare
5 Global Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise:
Experience from DINAS-COAST
Richard J.T. Klein and Jochen Hinkel
6 Our Vulnerability to Changes in Ecosystem Services
Dagmar Schr ter
7 Assessing Vulnerability of Human Health
Hans-Martin F‘ssel and Kristie L. Ebi
8 Mapping Double Exposure to Climate Change and Trade
Liberalization as an Awareness-Raising Tool
Robin Leichenko and Karen O'Brien
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9 An Agent-Based Framework for Assessing Vulnerability Futures
Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik and Mark Rounsevell
10 Assessing Financial and Economic Vulnerability to Natural Hazards:
Bridging the Gap between Scientific Assessment and the
Implementation of Disaster Risk Management with the CatSim Model
Stefan Hochrainer and Reinhard Mechler
11 Evaluation of a Stakeholder Dialogue on European Vulnerability
to Global Change
A. Cristina de la Vega-Leinert and Dagmar Schr ter
12 Defining Dangerous Climate Change:The Beijing Exercise
Martin Welp, Antonella Battaglini and Carlo C. Jaeger
13 A Framework for Analysing Methodologies of Vulnerability
Assessments
Jochen Hinkel
Index