Friday 31st of March 10.15 - 12.00 in Room 203 (ALC-Light): The Concepts of Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity.

This lecture gives an overview of the current theoretical and conceptual discussion related to climate change adaptation and vulnerability.

POWERPOINT

Course literature:

O’Brien, K., Eriksen, S., Nygaard, L. and Schjolden, A. (2007). Why different interpretations of vulnerability matters in climate change discourses. Climate Policy, 7(1), 73 – 88.

Preston, B.L., Mustelin, J. & Maloney, M.C (2015). Climate Adaptation Heuristics and the Science/Policy Divide. Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change 20: 467. doi:10.1007/s11027-013-9503-x

EXTRA READING

Thomas, K., Hardy, R.D., Lazrus, H., Mendez, M., Orlove, B., Rivera‐Collazo, I., Roberts, J.T., Rockman, M., Warner, B.P. and Winthrop, R., (2019). Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(2), p.e565

Arora-Jonsson, Seema. "Virtue and vulnerability: Discourses on women, gender and climate change." Global environmental change 21, no. 2 (2011): 744-751.