Assessing the vulnerability of agricultural land use and species to climate change and the role of policy in facilitating adaptation

摘要: The term vulnerability has been used in a variety of contexts, including climate change impact assessment. In this paper those issues relevant to impacts on agriculture and species are discussed. Outputs from models assess the fanners socio-economic by estimating their sensitivity capacity adapt external factors as means identifying what causes differences vulnerability. results showed that both farmers is dependent scenario under consideration. agriculture, it scenarios particularly lead different patterns intensification, extensification abandonment. For species, more related scenarios. cases, adaptation options potential were associated with futures policy intervention. conceptual linking two sectors shows sector consequent could have significant effect species. This demonstrates importance cross-sectoral assessments highlights sectoral integration development implementation. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.