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Autor/es:

Iglesias Picazo, Ana - Moneo Laín, Marta - Quiroga Gomez, Sonia

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Sección de Libro

Universidad:

E.T.S.I. Agrónomos (UPM)

Departamento:

Economía y Ciencias Sociales Agrarias

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Palabras clave:

risk, cause, socio-economic, environmental, vulnerability index.

Fecha de la defensa:

2008-01-01

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Resumen: Social vulnerability to drought is complex and it is reflected by society?s capacity to anticipate, cope with and respond. Here we estimate these aspects of social vulnerability, evaluating the natural resource structure, the economic capacity, the human and civic resources, and aspects of agricultural innovation. These factors are components of a vulnerability index and they can be weighted appropriately in computing the final value of the index. In this chapter we present the results of the index under two valuation scenarios. For Scenario 1 all components are valued equally. For Scenario 2 ...

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