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(Climate change) Vulnerability assessment

Generally, a climate change vulnerability assessment is aimed at informing the development of policies that reduce the risks associated with climate change. Climate change vulnerability assessments are conducted in a variety of contexts, and for a diverse group of stakeholders motivated by rather different concerns. Two generations of assessments of vulnerability to climate change can be distinguished:

• First generation vulnerability assessments, which are characterised primarily by the evaluation of climate impacts in terms of their relevance for society and by the consideration of potential adaptation.
• Second-generation vulnerability assessments, which assess the adaptive capacity of people, thus shifting the focus from potential to feasible adaptation.

At the present day an assessment of vulnerability to climate change include a sensitivity analysis for the system under study and an evaluation of the adaptive capacity of this system in order to determine how and where this system is vulnerable to climate change (IPCC AR4 WGII, 2007; Fussell and Klein, 2006).