Closing the Loop: climate science, development practice and policy interactions in dryland agro-ecological systems

Part of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) Seminar Series at the University of Leeds|.

The literature on drought, livelihoods and poverty suggested that dryland people are especially vulnerable to climate change.

However, assessing vulnerability and sharing lessons between regions has proven difficult.

The seminar reflected on a structured, multi-scale, interdisciplinary vulnerability assessment of six dryland regions.

Studies adopt different levels of quantification to assess:

• The added value provided by dynamic systems modelling;
• The challenges of developing locally appropriate scenarios of socio-economic, political and environmental change;
• Interrelated scales of vulnerability analysis; and
• The appropriateness of conceptual frameworks for vulnerability assessment.

This presentation reflected on the challenges of assessing vulnerability to inform debates on the integration of climate science and development planning.

Speakers: Andy Dougill|, Head of School of Earth and Environment and Professor of Environmental Sustainability; Claire Quinn|, Lecturer in Natural Resources Management at the School of Earth and Environment; and Elisabeth Simelton|, Research Fellow at the School of Earth and Environment 

Date and location: 5 October 2010, University of Leeds

Further reading:

• Biographies of speakers

 

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