method by exploiting the capabilities offered by GIS software ArcGIS 9.3.The analysis of this vulnerability map highlights … requires the development of vulnerability map to aquifers pollution. The vulnerability map has been developed using DRASTIC … four classes of vulnerabilities from "very low" vulnerability degree to "high" vulnerability. The class of "medium …

This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …

Land Use (WASCAL) tackles this vulnerability by investigating the interface of climate and rural socia-ecological systems …

The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the … academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the …

map and analyze the vulnerability to climate change in different districts of four south Indian states: Andhra Pradesh …, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. We have taken five sources of vulnerability indicators: socio-demographic, climatic …, agricultural, occupational and common property resources vulnerabilities to compute the composite vulnerability index. The …

assistance needed between the districts in the coastal zone of The Gambia. The study employed the Livelihood Vulnerability Index … (LVI) in the estimation of household vulnerability to Climate Change (CC) and its variability based on their: Socio … vulnerability, namely: Exposure; Sensitivity and; Adaptive Capacity. The primary data used is based on a survey of 355 household …

The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of the political empowerment of women on vulnerability to …, participation of women in civil society and participation of women in political debates) reduce vulnerability to climate change. ii … vulnerability to climate change is affected by women's political empowerment. The findings are robust to alternative estimation …

, this paper presents and tests an approach to estimating the effects of epidemic outbreaks on health vulnerability. The … online platform, the paper finds that climate has nonnegligible effects on health vulnerability. The evidence found and the … vulnerability index constructed can be used to analyze the main determinants of vulnerability in order to address policy concerns. …