Vulnerability to specific impacts of climate change will be most severe when and where they are felt together with stresses from other sources [20.3, 20.4, 20.7, Chapter 17 Section 17.3.3] (very high confidence). Non-climatic stresses can include poverty,unequal access to resources,food security,environmental degradation and risks from natural hazards[20.3,20.4,20.7,Chapter17Section 17.3.3].Climate change itself can, in some places,produce its own set of multiple stresses; total vulnerability to climate change,per se,is greater than the sum of vulnerabilities to specific impacts in these cases.
Publication year
2007
Authors
Yohe G W; Ahmad Q K; Arnell N W; Cohen J; Hope C; Janetos A C; Perez R T; Lasco R D
Language
English
Keywords
environmental management, natural environment, natural resources
