Amy Luers

TL;DR: A vulnerability framework for the assessment of coupled human–environment systems is presented and it is shown that vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone but also resides in the sensitivity and resilience of the system experiencing such hazards.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight new insights into the conceptualization of the vulnerability of social-environmental systems and identify critical points of convergence of what otherwise might be characterized as disparate fields of research and argue that a diversity of approaches to studying vulnerability is necessary in order to address the full complexity of the concept and that the approaches are in large part complementary.

TL;DR: In this paper, the vulnerability of selected outcome variables of concern to identified stressors (e.g. climate change) was measured as a function of the state of the variable of concern relative to a threshold of damage, the sensitivity of the variables to the stressors, and the magnitude and frequency of stressors to which the system is exposed.

TL;DR: The usefulness of the vulnerability framework is illustrated through three case studies: the tropical southern Yucatán, the arid Yaqui Valley of northwest Mexico, and the pan-Arctic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce an analytical framework for evaluating the vulnerability of people and places to environmental and social forces. The framework represents the relative vulnerability of a variable of concern to a set of disturbing forces (e.g. climate change, market fluctuations) by a position on a 3D analytical surface, where vulnerability is defined as a function of sensitivity, exposure, and the state relative to a threshold of damage.