Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: Conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/33536 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/33536 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/33536 archive 351 disk0/00/00/95/01 2016-01-15 08:45:07 2021-08-27 17:21:42 2016-01-15 08:45:07 article show 1 Fraser E.D.G. Dougill A.J. Hubacek K. 7747 Quinn C.H. Sendzimir J. 6152 Termansen M. Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: Conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions pub iis_rsp prog_rpv prog_risk adaptability; climate change; drought; food security; livelihoods; vulnerability Over 40% of the earth's land surface are drylands that are home to approximately 2.5 billion people. Livelihood sustainability in drylands is threatened by a complex and interrelated range of social, economic, political, and environmental changes that present significant challenges to researchers, policy makers, and, above all, rural land users. Dynamic ecological and environmental change models suggest that climate change induced drought events may push dryland systems to cross biophysical thresholds, causing a long-term drop in agricultural productivity. Therefore, research is needed to explore how development strategies and other socioeconomic changes help livelihoods become more resilient and robust at a time of growing climatic risk and uncertainty. As a result, the overarching goal of this special feature is to conduct a structured comparison of how livelihood systems in different dryland regions are affected by drought, thereby making methodological, empirical, and theoretical contributions to our understanding of how these types of social-ecological systems may be vulnerable to climate change. In introducing these issues, the purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of the two main intellectual challenges of this work, namely: (1) how to conceptualize vulnerability to climate change in coupled social-ecological systems; and (2) the methodological challenges of anticipating trends in vulnerability in dynamic environments. 2011-09 published Resilience Alliance 10.5751/ES-03402-160303 XJ-11-170 Ecology and Society; 16(3):3 (September 2011) [doi:10.5751/ES-03402-160303] Guest Editorial, part of Special Feature on [[Resilience and Vulnerability of Arid and Semi-Arid Social Ecological Systems]] 1331 277 public Ecology and Society 16 3 art.3 3 TRUE 1708-3087 FALSE info:eu-repo/semantics/article