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Gina Ziervogel
Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
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Vulnerability
Concepts (Section 1)
Approaches (Section 2)
Environmental
change
(Section 4)
Methods (Section 3)
Adaptation
to GEC
(Section 5)
Adaptation in
practice
(Section 6)
Turn to person next to you:
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What do you understand by the term
vulnerability?
Why is it important to understand
given climate change?
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Vulnerability
 Risk and vulnerability definitions
▪ Focus on exposure, sensitivity and resilience
 Conceptual approaches
▪ Risk/Hazard
▪ Political economy/ecology
▪ Ecological resilience
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Assessing vulnerability
 Scoping vulnerability assessment
 Questions for initial framing of VA
 Livelihood vulnerability
▪ Qualitative
▪ Quantitative
 Indicators and mapping
 Agent-based modelling
 Scenarios
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Environmental change
 Film: Wake up, freak out, get a grip
 What is global environmental change?
 IPCC process of examining climate change
 Evidence of change
▪ Africa
▪ South Africa
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Adaptation
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Concept
Builds on understanding of vulnerability
Adaptive capacity
Types of adaptation
Adaptation in eThekwini municipality
 4 phases
 Municipal adaptation plans
 Community adaptation plans
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Sekhukhune district
 Impacts of climate variability on livelihoods and municipality
 The need to focus on adaptation in the water sector