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22.04.2013

A holistic approach to climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment: Pilot study in Thailand

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Climate change vulnerability and adaptation planning can be taken into consideration acrossmany sectors and at different levels and scales. Different scales of planning have different contextsand may require different approaches. In a landscape context, inter-linkages between sectorswithin the landscape form the context of adaptation planning, as the response of any one sectormay have consequences for others. Moreover, climate change is not the only change that mayaffect the sector; proper adaptation will have to address future socioeconomic change as well.This calls for a new foundation for climate change adaptation assessments: a holistic viewof the landscape as a complex system with multiple livelihoods or sectors under multiplepressures from climate and socioeconomic changes and their consequences. This paperpoints out gaps in using sectoral vulnerability and adaptation assessment for landscapeadaptation planning, and proposes instead an extended framework