Global consequences of land use

JA Foley, R DeFries, GP Asner, C Barford, G Bonan… - science, 2005 - science.org
Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a
force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air are …

Vulnerability

WN Adger - Global environmental change, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper reviews research traditions of vulnerability to environmental change and the
challenges for present vulnerability research in integrating with the domains of resilience …

Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods

B Tellman, JA Sullivan, C Kuhn, AJ Kettner, CS Doyle… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Flooding affects more people than any other environmental hazard and hinders sustainable
development,. Investing in flood adaptation strategies may reduce the loss of life and …

The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

H Kreibich, AF Van Loon, K Schröter, PJ Ward… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally,, yet their
impacts are still increasing. An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is …

Covid-19 and tourism vulnerability

JA Duro, A Perez-Laborda, J Turrion-Prats… - Tourism Management …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted tourism and leisure activities
worldwide, especially in the hospitality sector. This paper has a conceptual and empirical …

Resilience (republished)

C Folke - Ecology and society, 2016 - JSTOR
Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

[BOOK][B] At risk: natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters

P Blaikie, T Cannon, I Davis, B Wisner - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
The term'natural disaster'is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes,
hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase'natural disaster'suggests an uncritical acceptance …

Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability

B Smit, J Wandel - Global environmental change, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the concept of adaptation of human communities to global changes,
especially climate change, in the context of adaptive capacity and vulnerability. It focuses on …

A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters

SL Cutter, L Barnes, M Berry, C Burton, E Evans… - Global environmental …, 2008 - Elsevier
There is considerable research interest on the meaning and measurement of resilience from
a variety of research perspectives including those from the hazards/disasters and global …

Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline

N Gallai, JM Salles, J Settele, BE Vaissière - Ecological economics, 2009 - Elsevier
There is mounting evidence of pollinator decline all over the world and consequences in
many agricultural areas could be significant. We assessed these consequences by …