Vulnerability assessment of Guyanese sugar to floods

摘要: Climate change is an ongoing process that has profound impacts on global environment and economy. This study focused floods impacting Guyanese sugar industry. The developed a conceptual framework representing agriculture system’s vulnerability to climate stimulus/stimuli assist in selecting indicators can more accurately realistically represent vulnerability. development of followed the IPCC (2007) composing three factors, is, exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity; however, it added some novelty as how each these factors defined, their relationships, sequence occurrences, attributes. uses impact-based approach identify sensitivity by investigating sugar. methodology resulted measure stimulus/stimuli. Multiple were used with experts’ opinions assign weights (by Analytical Hierarchy Process) both arrive at annual indexes for period 2003 2016. showed was highly vulnerable adaptation measures identified target specific indicators.