Vulnerability Network & Observatory


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The Vulnerability Network provides an online knowledge portal for different sectors and stresses, linking researchers and practitioners.

Find interesting and useful reading and reference material - the Document Hotel contains hundreds of journal papers, reports, briefing notes, etc. that can be searched and accessed in full, covering a range of topics including:

  • Vulnerability
  • Adaptation
  • Climate change impacts
  • Food security
  • Water management
  • Renewable energy
  • Socio-environmental modelling ... and many more!

See snippets of news that give a feel for what is going on in the field of vulnerability and sustainable development research, highlighting important activities and events. Sign up to one or a number of forums to communicate with people engaged in similar work, to use as a means of collaborating on projects - post messages and documents and be automatically notified by email when others do the same.

Increasingly this team is making use of a new site to publish and present materials - please visit weADAPT for the most current and important resources.


User Forums
Public threads, private groups.
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News
Recent events around the world, new publications.
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Document Hotel
Relevant literature on vulnerability and adaptation.
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V-Assistant
Online manual on Vulnerability Assessment
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Latest news items

wikiADAPT goes live - 03 December
A new wiki-based research resource for climate change adaptation goes live at COP13
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A local perspective on rural vulnerability in South Africa - 06 August
In response to a recently published SEI report entitled, Adapting to climate, water and health stresses: insights from Sekhukhune, South Africa , a young community member from one of the villages where the research was conducted commented as follows:
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Conference on Food Security and Environmental Change - 02 August
The University of Oxford will host an international conference on “Food Security and Environmental Change: Linking science, development and policy for adaptation” between Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 April 2008. The purpose of the conference is to engage the research and policy communities addressing food security, environmental change and food policy...
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Definitions of Vulnerability...

Alexander (1993)
Human vulnerability is a function of the costs and benefits of inhabiting areas at risk from natural disaster.

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