Keynote Presentations from the 2nd AVEC International Summer School, Peyresq, 18-30 September 2005

Speaker: Dagmar Schröter
dagmar.schroeter<at>gmail.com
Research Fellow at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA &
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg C4, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Title of the talk: Historical cases of vulnerability (pdf: 3MB)

Summary of the talk by Elia Machado: Students´ summary (pdf)

Recommended background literature on this presentation:

• Essential reading
  • Schröter D (2005) Vulnerability to changes in ecosystem services. CID working paper. Center for International Development (CID), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Submitted. (pdf: 300KB) and http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/grad/010.htm
  
  
  • Fraser EDG (2003) Social vulnerability and ecological fragility: Building bridges between social and natural sciences using the Irish Potato Famine as a case study. Conservation Ecology 7(2):9. (pdf: 200KB). http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss2/art9/
  
  
• Important reading
  • Schröter D, Polsky C, Patt AG (2005) Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: an eight step approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10:573-595. doi:10.1007/s11027-005-6135-9
  
  
  • Schröter D, Metzger MJ, Cramer W, Leemans R (2004) Vulnerability assessment – analysing the human-environment system in the face of global environmental change. Environmental Science Section Bulletin, Kalmar University, Sweden, 2, 11-17. (pdf: 200KB).
  
  
  • Turner BL, Kasperson RE , Matson P, McCarthy JJ , Corell RW, Christensen L, Eckley N, Kasperson JX., Luers A, Martello M L, Polsky C, Pulsipher A, Schiller A (2003) A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 100:8074-8079. (pdf: 500KB).
  
  
  • O'Brien K, Sygna L, Haugen JE (2004) Vulnerable or resilient? A multi-scale assessment of climate impacts and vulnerability in Norway. Climatic Change 64 (1-2):193-225, doi: 10.1023/B:CLIM.0000024668.70143.80 pdf: 800KB)
    
    
• Interesting reading, if extra time and interest
  • Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability Program (2001) Vulnerability and resilience for coupled human-environment systems: report of the research and assessment systems for sustainability program 2001 summer study. Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability Program Discussion Paper Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. (pdf: 1MB)
  
  
  • Turner BL, Matson P, McCarthy JJ, Corell RW, Christensen L, Eckley N, Hovelsrud-Broda G, Kasperson JX, Kasperson RE, Luers A, Martello ML, Mathiesen S, Polsky C, Pulsipher A, Schiller A, Tyler N (2003) Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: three case studies. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 100:8080-8085. (pdf: 600KB)

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