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Vulnerability assessment

Risk assessment that evaluates the sensitivity and adaptive capacity of a system, population, or sector in order to understand its propensity to be adversely affected by climate hazards.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGII (vulnerability assessment)

Synonyms

vulnerability analysis

Broader

Risk assessment

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

INT_103 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_103
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_103)