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3 How Are Climate and Other Environmental Changes Affecting the Vulnerabilities of Coupled Human–Environment Systems?
3 How Are Climate and Other Environmental Changes Affecting the Vulnerabilities of Coupled Human–Environment Systems?
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In such cases, will vulnerabili equally sensitive to the rising water (e.g., did some of ties associated with socioeconomic changes likely amplify or attenuate the impacts of environmental changes? the exposed neighborhoods experience lesser physical Do some people or environments cope better with the and financial impacts than other exposed neighborimpacts of changing circumstances than others?
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Their research draws on a rich tradition sensitive local populations are to such changes, and of geographical work concerned with how humans how effectively people may respond to the impacts are transforming Earth (Marsh, 1864; Sauer, 1925; of the changes. It is also important not to focus so Thomas, 1956; Glacken, 1967; Turner et al., 1990a)
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derived from a principal the geographical sciences have focused particularly on components analysis of variables hypothesized to reunderstanding how people (and ecosystems) produce, flect various social vulnerabilities to natural hazards.
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SoVI scores are placebased because, by construction, a county's SoVI score is only meaningful in rela tion to an entire set of county scores. When the scores are mapped, they illustrate the geographical variation in social vulnerability, and highlight potential uneven capacity for disaster preparedness and response.
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cover changes under different climate change scenarios, and by focusing not only on physical outcomes, but on research suBQuesTioNs social response options and constraints. The extent to which urbanizing areas in general, and how will climate change affect patterns of urbanizing coastal zones in particular, will be vulnerable vulnerability and resilience in rapidly urbanizing to the effects of climate change will depend not only on areas?
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. A key overarching concern should be there have been no systematic attempts to pool existthe trade-offs that people are likely to face in different ing vulnerability results from varying scales to produce places as environmentally destabilizing climate change generalizations about scale dependencies, a challenge becomes more acute.
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To move forward, research is T hey could pool results from the emerging body needed that can facilitate efforts to specify the general of knowledge on, for example, the land-use-policy/ conditions under which coupled human–environment coastal-storm vulnerability relationship in the New systems become vulnerable to the effects of human– Orleans area and test the applicability of the common environmental changes, document and assess the geo- themes that have emerged in that domain to other graphical patterns of these vulnerabilities, and analyze coastal-zone metropolitan areas exposed to similar why such patterns emerge. If this challenge is not environmental hazards (e.g., Miami, Houston)
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Opportunities to examine issues of resilience, sustainability, and adaptaexpand our understanding of the changing patterns tion at local scales, and their relationships to larger of vulnerability in response to environmental change scale processes. are most likely to come through research focused on underexamined contexts and through research that
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