Beroya-Eitner, Mary Antonette (2016)
Ecological vulnerability indicators.
In: Ecological Indicators, 60 (January)
Artikel, Bibliographie
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
Indicators provide easy and quick information on the status or condition of an object of interest andare therefore widely used in policy-making. In recent years, policy interest in vulnerability researchhas increased and a growing number of studies have been aimed at developing vulnerability indicators.Some of these studies have been done within the social–ecological system (SES) framework, taking intoaccount both social vulnerability and ecological vulnerability. A particular challenged faced, however, iswith regard to the incorporation of indicators to capture the latter, especially as the concept of vulner-ability as applied in ecology is relatively new and not yet well-explored. This paper expounds on thisproblem by answering the following questions: (1) How are the concept of vulnerability and therebyecological vulnerability currently understood? (2) What are the challenges in the development and useof ecological vulnerability indicators? (3) What are the current efforts to overcome these challenges?One insight gathered is that due to the complexity, nonlinearity, and multiplicity of dynamics of naturalsystems, development of sufficiently general indicators of ecological vulnerability may not be realizable.Rather, ecological vulnerability assessment and the development of indicators thereof, whether doneindependent of the human system or within the SES, should be conducted at smaller scales and must becontext-specific.
| Typ des Eintrags: | Artikel |
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| Erschienen: | 2016 |
| Autor(en): | Beroya-Eitner, Mary Antonette |
| Art des Eintrags: | Bibliographie |
| Titel: | Ecological vulnerability indicators |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Publikationsjahr: | 2016 |
| Verlag: | Elsevier |
| Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: | Ecological Indicators |
| Jahrgang/Volume einer Zeitschrift: | 60 |
| (Heft-)Nummer: | January |
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| Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | Indicators provide easy and quick information on the status or condition of an object of interest andare therefore widely used in policy-making. In recent years, policy interest in vulnerability researchhas increased and a growing number of studies have been aimed at developing vulnerability indicators.Some of these studies have been done within the social–ecological system (SES) framework, taking intoaccount both social vulnerability and ecological vulnerability. A particular challenged faced, however, iswith regard to the incorporation of indicators to capture the latter, especially as the concept of vulner-ability as applied in ecology is relatively new and not yet well-explored. This paper expounds on thisproblem by answering the following questions: (1) How are the concept of vulnerability and therebyecological vulnerability currently understood? (2) What are the challenges in the development and useof ecological vulnerability indicators? (3) What are the current efforts to overcome these challenges?One insight gathered is that due to the complexity, nonlinearity, and multiplicity of dynamics of naturalsystems, development of sufficiently general indicators of ecological vulnerability may not be realizable.Rather, ecological vulnerability assessment and the development of indicators thereof, whether doneindependent of the human system or within the SES, should be conducted at smaller scales and must becontext-specific. |
| Freie Schlagworte: | Ecological vulnerability, Ecosystem, vulnerability, Environmental vulnerability, Vulnerability indicators |
| Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 13 Fachbereich Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften 13 Fachbereich Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften > Institut für Geotechnik |
| Hinterlegungsdatum: | 18 Dez 2020 08:59 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 18 Dez 2020 08:59 |
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