Building comparable global change vulnerability assessments: The vulnerability scoping diagram |
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| Authors: | Colin Polsky Rob Neff Brent Yarnal |
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| Institution: | aGraduate School of Geography and George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA;bDepartment of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 211 Sondheim Hall, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA;cDepartment of Geography and Center for Integrated Regional Assessment, 302 Walker Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA |
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| Abstract: | Advancing vulnerability science depends in part on identifying common themes from multiple, independent vulnerability assessments. Such insights are difficult to produce when the assessments use dissimilar, often qualitative, measures. The Vulnerability Scoping Diagram is presented to facilitate the comparison of assessments with dissimilar measures. The diagram is illustrated with recent research on drought vulnerabilities, showing that common insights into vulnerability may emerge if independent research teams use a common structure for organizing information about exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity—even if the underlying measures differ between assessments. Broadly adopting this technique, which is grounded in the “Eight Steps” methodological protocol Schröter, D., Polsky, C., Patt, A., 2005. Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: an eight step approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10(4), 573–595], will enable a vulnerability meta-analysis, the lessons from which may permit places to identify helpful adaptation or mitigation options without first having to conduct their own vulnerability assessments. |
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| Keywords: | Global change vulnerablility HERO Mixed methodology Eight steps Vulnerability scoping diagram Meta-analysis |
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