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DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.009 |
How inequitable is the global distribution of responsibility, capability, and vulnerability to climate change: A comprehensive indicator-based assessment | |
Fuessel, Hans-Martin | |
发表日期 | 2010 |
ISSN | 0959-3780 |
卷号 | 20期号:4页码:597-611 |
关键词 | Climate changeClimate impactsResponsibilityCapabilityVulnerabilityInequity |
英文关键词 | While it is generally asserted that those countries who have contributed least to anthropogenic climate change are most vulnerable to its adverse impacts some recently developed indices of vulnerability to climate change come to a different conclusion. Confirmation or rejection of this assertion is complicated by the lack of an agreed metric for measuring countries' vulnerability to climate change and by conflicting interpretations of vulnerability. This paper presents a comprehensive semi-quantitative analysis of the disparity between countries' responsibility for climate change, their capability to act and assist, and their vulnerability to climate change for four climate-sensitive sectors based on a broad range of disaggregated vulnerability indicators. This analysis finds a double inequity between responsibility and capability on the one hand and the vulnerability of food security, human health, and coastal populations on the other. This double inequity is robust across alternative indicator choices and interpretations of vulnerability. The main cause for the higher vulnerability of poor nations who have generally contributed little to climate change is their lower adaptive capacity. In addition, the biophysical sensitivity and socio-economic exposure of poor nations to climate impacts on food security and human health generally exceeds that of wealthier nations. No definite statement can be made on the inequity associated with climate impacts on water supply due to large uncertainties about future changes in regional water availability and to conflicting indicators of current water scarcity. The robust double inequity between responsibility and vulnerability for most climate-sensitive sectors strengthens the moral case for financial and technical assistance from those countries most responsible for climate change to those countries most vulnerable to its adverse impacts. However, the complex and geographically heterogeneous patterns of vulnerability factors for different climate-sensitive sectors suggest that the allocation of international adaptation funds to developing countries should be guided by sector-specific or hazard-specific criteria despite repeated requests from participants in international climate negotiations to develop a generic index of countries' vulnerability to climate change. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000284436800008 |
来源期刊 | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS |
来源机构 | 欧洲环境署 |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/56230 |
作者单位 | Potsdam Inst Climate Impact Res, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Fuessel, Hans-Martin. How inequitable is the global distribution of responsibility, capability, and vulnerability to climate change: A comprehensive indicator-based assessment[J]. 欧洲环境署,2010,20(4):597-611. |
APA | Fuessel, Hans-Martin.(2010).How inequitable is the global distribution of responsibility, capability, and vulnerability to climate change: A comprehensive indicator-based assessment.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,20(4),597-611. |
MLA | Fuessel, Hans-Martin."How inequitable is the global distribution of responsibility, capability, and vulnerability to climate change: A comprehensive indicator-based assessment".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 20.4(2010):597-611. |
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