Vulnerability to multiple stressors in coastal communities: A study of the Andaman Coast of Thailand

摘要: Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change have become a dominant theme in development conservation research work. Yet coastal communities are facing wider array of different stressors that affect the sustainability natural resources adaptive capacity local residents. The ability households adapt is influenced by nature, number, magnitude changes with which they contend. In this paper, we present range 36 socio-economic (i.e. economic, social, governance conflict) biophysical other environmental) emerged from qualitative interviews seven on Andaman coast Thailand. These were then integrated into quantitative survey 237 wherein participants asked rate level impact these household livelihoods. Ratings showed economic some – extreme weather events r...