However, while the nature of climate vulnerability is broadly known, as are specific climate vulnerable groups, no scholarly paper has to date been published on the extent to which the emerging body of national adaptation policies engages with the climate-health vulnerabilities of specific groups the focus of this paper.
The existence of ostensibly successful policy documents that are silent on the special needs of particular groups is not an argument against developing 'best practice' health adaptation policy that explicitly prioritises the needs of vulnerable groups, if the evidence of the IPCC about climate vulnerability and social inequality is to be heeded [ 11].
Figure 2 summarises this literature, providing the available elements of a best practice approach for developing national adaptation policy informed by a focus on vulnerable groups in ways that are consistent with the definition of climate vulnerability and the prescriptions of global policy frameworks discussed in the background section of this paper.
Climate vulnerability assessments can be used to educate residents about localized risks and vulnerable populations.
Poverty and climate vulnerability are not the same thing.
Mapleton, a city of 100,000, has just completed a Climate Vulnerability Assessment.
Consequently, the task of incorporating climate vulnerability into conservation planning is essential but challenging.
But neither version would require farmers to take other measures to reduce their climate vulnerability, like investing in healthier soil.
He has written on a range of topics, including population dynamics and the environment; climate vulnerability mapping; urban climate vulnerability and sustainability; climate change and migration; environmental indicators; and remote sensing applications for environmental treaties.
When President Obama visited Alaska last summer, he did not stop in tiny Kivalina, a village of about 400 that has become a poster child for climate vulnerability.
The point is starkly illustrated in a new map of climate vulnerability (above): the rich global north has low vulnerability, the poor global south has high vulnerability.
