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7 - What Shapes Climate Vulnerability?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

Robert L. Wilby
Robert L. Wilby
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Loughborough University
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Climate Change in Practice
Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises
 , pp. 103 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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7.4 Further Reading

Das, S. and Vincent, J.R. 2009. Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian super cyclone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 7357–7360.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Knutson, T.R., McBride, J.L., Chan, J., et al. 2010. Tropical cyclones and climate change. Nature Geoscience, 3, 157–163.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
O’Hare, G. 2001. Hurricane 07B in the Godavari delta, Andhra Pradesh, India: vulnerability, mitigation and the spatial impact. The Geographical Journal, 467, 234–246.Google Scholar

7.5 Other Resources

Climate Vulnerability Monitor http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2012/monitor/ [accessed 13/07/16]

Climate Vulnerable Forum (V20) www.thecvf.org/ [accessed 13/07/16]

EM-DAT International Disaster Database www.emdat.be/ [accessed 13/07/16]

Germanwatch Climate Risk Index https://germanwatch.org/en/cri [accessed 13/07/16]

Human Development Index http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi [accessed 13/07/16]

Hyogo Framework for Action www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/hfa [accessed 13/07/16]

Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) http://index.gain.org/ranking/vulnerability [accessed 13/07/16]

US Naval Oceanography Portal Annual Tropical Cyclone Reports www.usno.navy.mil/JTWC/annual-tropical-cyclone-reports [accessed 13/07/16]

World Risk Report www.worldriskreport.org/ [accessed 13/07/16]

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