Operationalizing longitudinal approaches to climate change vulnerability assessment |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada;2. Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Locked Bag 4, Maroochydore DC, Queensland, 4558, Australia;3. Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, Canada;4. Priestley Centre for International Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom;1. University of Idaho, Environmental Science Program, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA;2. University of Idaho, Department of Geography, 875 Perimeter Drive MS 3021, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA;3. U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, 400 N 34th St. Suite 201, Seattle, WA 98103, USA;4. U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 800 E. Beckwith, Missoula, MT 59801, USA;1. Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA;2. Department of Geosciences, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS 67601, USA;1. Department of Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 84156-83111, Iran;2. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland;1. Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, via Mesiano, 77, 38123, Trento, Italy;2. School of Development, Azim Premji University, PES Institute of Technology Campus, Pixel Park, B Block, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560100, India;1. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, United Kingdom;2. Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Av. Brasil 2241, 2362807, Valparaíso, Chile |
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| Abstract: | The past decade has seen a proliferation of community-scale climate change vulnerability assessments globally. Much of this work has employed frameworks informed by scholarship in the vulnerability field, which draws upon interviews with community members to identify and characterize climatic risks and adaptive responses. This scholarship has developed a baseline understanding of vulnerability in specific places and industries at particular times. However, given the dynamic nature of vulnerability new methodologies are needed to generate insights on how climate change is experienced and responded to over time. Longitudinal approaches have long been used in sociology and the health sciences to capture the dynamism of human processes, but their penetration into vulnerability research has been limited. In this article, we describe the application of two longitudinal approaches, cohort and trend studies, in climate change vulnerability assessment by analyzing three case studies from the Arctic where the authors applied these approaches. These case studies highlight how longitudinal approaches can be operationalized to capture the dynamism of vulnerability by identifying climate anomalies and trends, and how adaptations develop over time, including insights on themes such as social learning and adaptive pathways. |
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| Keywords: | Adaptation Longitudinal approaches Arctic Vulnerability Climate change Inuit |
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