caa a22 4500 467917981 CHVBK 20180406152908.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-006-0329-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-006-0329-3 Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: An Evolution of Conceptual Thinking [Elektronische Daten] [Hans-Martin Füssel, Richard Klein] Vulnerability is an emerging concept for climate science and policy. Over the past decade, efforts to assess vulnerability to climate change triggered a process of theory development and assessment practice, which is reflected in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This paper reviews the historical development of the conceptual ideas underpinning assessments of vulnerability to climate change. We distinguish climate impact assessment, first- and second-generation vulnerability assessment, and adaptation policy assessment. The different generations of assessments are described by means of a conceptual framework that defines key concepts of the assessment and their analytical relationships. The purpose of this conceptual framework is two-fold: first, to present a consistent visual glossary of the main concepts underlying the IPCC approach to vulnerability and its assessment; second, to show the evolution of vulnerability assessments. This evolution is characterized by the progressive inclusion of non-climatic determinants of vulnerability to climate change, including adaptive capacity, and the shift from estimating expected damages to attempting to reduce them. We hope that this paper improves the understanding of the main approaches to climate change vulnerability assessment and their evolution, not only within the climate change community but also among researchers from other scientific communities, who are sometimes puzzled by the unfamiliar use of technical terms in the context of climate change. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2006 Füssel Hans-Martin Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, U.S.A. aut Klein Richard Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473, Potsdam, Germany aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/3(2006-04-01), 301-329 0165-0009 75:3<301 2006 75 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-0329-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-0329-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Füssel Hans-Martin Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Klein Richard Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473, Potsdam, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/3(2006-04-01), 301-329 0165-0009 75:3<301 2006 75 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer