Vulnerability definitions and frameworks
This category explores how climate science has conceptualised vulnerability and closely related terms. It also covers the main frameworks employed to study vulnerability and the ideas about how findings should be used to inform just decisions and actions.
A climate adaptation framework for NHS organisations in England
This Climate Adaptation Framework supports the UK's National Health Service (NHS) organisations to adapt to climate change.
Keep resilience language simple
What's in a word? This short blog underlines the importance of keeping resilience language simple if we are to communicate effectively.
How resilient is resilience?
This blog asks: how useful (or not) is the concept of resilience for people affected by development concerns such as disaster risk, including climate change challenges and opportunities?
UN Adaptation Gap Report 2017
The report explores key opportunities and challenges associated with assessing progress on adaptation at the global level.
Resilience Scan: A review of literature, debates and social media on resilience
This Resilience Scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter of 2017.
Is adaptation reducing vulnerability or redistributing it?
Building on earlier work in maladaptation, this article explores the extent to which concerns about vulnerability redistribution have influenced different realms of adaptation practice.
From risk to resilience: making global policies count for the most vulnerable
This report identifies five key principles for resilience building to ensure 2015 policy commitments are effectively implemented in vulnerable contexts.
Dynamic vulnerability
Lesotho landscape (photo: Sukaina Bharwani) Vulnerability is a complex and by definition it encompasses many attributes or multiple stresses (social,...