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DOI	10.1007/s10584-019-02412-x
	Vulnerability assessment of Guyanese sugar to floods
	Tomby S.; Zhang J.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0165-0009
英文摘要	Climate change is an ongoing process that has profound impacts on global environment and economy. This study focused on floods impacting Guyanese sugar industry. The study developed a conceptual framework representing an agriculture system’s vulnerability to a climate change stimulus/stimuli to assist in selecting indicators that can more accurately and realistically represent vulnerability. The development of a conceptual framework followed the IPCC (2007) framework composing of three vulnerability factors, that is, exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity; however, it added some novelty as to how each of these factors is defined, their relationships, sequence of their occurrences, and their attributes. This study uses an impact-based approach to identify sensitivity indicators by investigating the impacts of floods on Guyanese sugar. This methodology resulted in indicators that can realistically measure an agriculture system’s vulnerability to a climate change stimulus/stimuli. Multiple indicators were used to measure sugar vulnerability with experts’ opinions used to assign weights (by the Analytical Hierarchy Process) to both the vulnerability factors and their indicators to arrive at annual sugar vulnerability indexes for the period 2003 to 2016. The study showed that Guyanese sugar was highly vulnerable to floods and adaptation measures were identified to target specific indicators. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agriculture; Floods; Sugar industry; Adaptive capacity; Agriculture systems; Analytical Hierarchy Process; Conceptual frameworks; Global environment; Multiple indicators; Vulnerability assessments; Vulnerability factors; Climate change
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147569
作者单位	Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Siping Rd., 1239, Shanghai, 200092, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tomby S.,Zhang J.. Vulnerability assessment of Guyanese sugar to floods[J],2019.
APA	Tomby S.,&Zhang J..(2019).Vulnerability assessment of Guyanese sugar to floods.Climatic Change.
MLA	Tomby S.,et al."Vulnerability assessment of Guyanese sugar to floods".Climatic Change (2019).