Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review

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dc.creatorThomas, Kimberley
dc.creatorHardy, R. Dean
dc.creatorLazrus, Heather
dc.creatorMendez, Michael
dc.creatorOrlove, Ben
dc.creatorRivera-Collazo, Isabel
dc.creatorRoberts, J. Timmons
dc.creatorRockman, Marcy
dc.creatorWarner, Benjamin P.
dc.creatorWinthrop, Robert
dc.creator.orcidThomas|0000-0002-9600-385X
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-22T15:11:22Z
dc.date.available2023-06-22T15:11:22Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-07
dc.description.abstractThe varied effects of recent extreme weather events around the world exemplify the uneven impacts of climate change on populations, even within relatively small geographic regions. Differential human vulnerability to environmental hazards results from a range of social, economic, historical, and political factors, all of which operate at multiple scales. While adaptation to climate change has been the dominant focus of policy and research agendas, it is essential to ask as well why some communities and peoples are disproportionately exposed to and affected by climate threats. The cases and synthesis presented here are organized around four key themes (resource access, governance, culture, and knowledge), which we approach from four social science fields (cultural anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and sociology). Social scientific approaches to human vulnerability draw vital attention to the root causes of climate change threats and the reasons that people are forced to adapt to them. Because vulnerability is a multidimensional process rather than an unchanging state, a dynamic social approach to vulnerability is most likely to improve mitigation and adaptation planning efforts.
dc.description.departmentGeography and Urban Studies
dc.description.schoolcollegeTemple University. College of Liberal Arts
dc.format.extent18 pages
dc.identifier.citationThomas, K, Hardy, RD, Lazrus, H, et al. Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review. WIREs Clim Change. 2019; 10:e565. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.565
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/8692
dc.identifier.issn1757-7799
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/8728
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.565
dc.relation.haspartWIREs Climate Change, Vol. 10, Iss. 2
dc.relation.ispartofFaculty/ Researcher Works
dc.relation.isreferencedbyWiley
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC
dc.rights.urihttp://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectAccess
dc.subjectCulture
dc.subjectGovernance
dc.subjectKnowledge
dc.subjectVulnerability
dc.temple.creatorThomas, Kimberley
dc.titleExplaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review
dc.typeText
dc.type.genreJournal article
refterms.dateFOA2023-06-22T15:11:22Z
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