Sammanfattning
Originalspråk | engelska |
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Tidskrift | Regional Environmental Change |
Volym | 16 |
Utgåva | 8 |
Sidor (från-till) | 2291-2302 |
Antal sidor | 12 |
ISSN | 1436-3798 |
DOI | |
Status | Publicerad - 2016 |
MoE-publikationstyp | A2 Granska artikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift |
Vetenskapsgrenar
- 1172 Miljövetenskap
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Climate change, multiple stressors and human vulnerability : a systematic review. / Räsänen, Aleksi; Juhola, Sirkku; Nygren, Anja ; Käkönen, Mira; Kallio, Maarit ; Monge Monge, Adrian ; Kanninen, Markku .
I: Regional Environmental Change, Vol. 16, Nr. 8, 2016, s. 2291-2302.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Översiktsartikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate change, multiple stressors and human vulnerability
T2 - a systematic review
AU - Räsänen, Aleksi
AU - Juhola, Sirkku
AU - Nygren, Anja
AU - Käkönen, Mira
AU - Kallio, Maarit
AU - Monge Monge, Adrian
AU - Kanninen, Markku
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We systematically reviewed current climate change literature in order to examine how multiple processes that affect human vulnerability have been studied. Of the 125 reviewed articles, 79 % were published after 2009. There are numerous concepts that point out to stressors other than climate change that were used in reviewed studies. These different concepts were used interchangeably, and they illustrate processes that act on different scales. Most widely used concepts included non-climatic (40 % of the articles), multiple stressors (38 %) and other factors (37 %). About 75 % of the studies either acknowledged or carefully analyzed the social and environmental context in which vulnerability is experienced. One-third of the studies recognized climate change-related stressors as the most important, one-third argued that stressors other than climate are more important, and the rest of the studies did not analyze the relative importance of the different processes. Interactions between different stressors were mentioned in 76 % and analyzed explicitly in 28 % of the articles. Our review shows that there are studies that analyze the social context of vulnerability within climate change-related literature and this literature is rapidly expanding. Reviewed studies point out that there are multiple interacting stressors, whose interlinkages need to be carefully analyzed and targeted by policies, which integrate adaptation to climate change and other stressors. In conclusion, we suggest that future studies should include analytical frameworks that reflect dissimilarities between different types of stressors, methodological triangulation to identify key stressors and analysis of interactions between multiple stressors across different scales.
AB - We systematically reviewed current climate change literature in order to examine how multiple processes that affect human vulnerability have been studied. Of the 125 reviewed articles, 79 % were published after 2009. There are numerous concepts that point out to stressors other than climate change that were used in reviewed studies. These different concepts were used interchangeably, and they illustrate processes that act on different scales. Most widely used concepts included non-climatic (40 % of the articles), multiple stressors (38 %) and other factors (37 %). About 75 % of the studies either acknowledged or carefully analyzed the social and environmental context in which vulnerability is experienced. One-third of the studies recognized climate change-related stressors as the most important, one-third argued that stressors other than climate are more important, and the rest of the studies did not analyze the relative importance of the different processes. Interactions between different stressors were mentioned in 76 % and analyzed explicitly in 28 % of the articles. Our review shows that there are studies that analyze the social context of vulnerability within climate change-related literature and this literature is rapidly expanding. Reviewed studies point out that there are multiple interacting stressors, whose interlinkages need to be carefully analyzed and targeted by policies, which integrate adaptation to climate change and other stressors. In conclusion, we suggest that future studies should include analytical frameworks that reflect dissimilarities between different types of stressors, methodological triangulation to identify key stressors and analysis of interactions between multiple stressors across different scales.
KW - 1172 Environmental sciences
KW - Adaptation
KW - Non-climatic
KW - Driver
KW - Exposure
KW - Pressure
KW - Risk
KW - DOUBLE-EXPOSURE
KW - LAND-USE
KW - FACILITATING ADAPTATION
KW - SOCIAL VULNERABILITY
KW - ADAPTIVE CAPACITY
KW - DISASTER RISK
KW - DEJA-VU
KW - CONTEXT
KW - LIVELIHOODS
KW - FRAMEWORK
U2 - 10.1007/s10113-016-0974-7
DO - 10.1007/s10113-016-0974-7
M3 - Review Article
VL - 16
SP - 2291
EP - 2302
JO - Regional Environmental Change
JF - Regional Environmental Change
SN - 1436-3798
IS - 8
ER -