Assets for health: linking vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change

Tyndall Working Paper 163, January 2016:

This paper reviews the literature to date on vulnerability, resilience and adaptation conceptualisations and assessments, with a special focus on its human dimensions from an array of disciplinary perspectives (i.e. health sciences, environmental science, sociology, economics, disaster science, human development, ecology and psychology). Based on this literature review, it then identifies drivers that shape these and how they can be more comprehensively conceptualised for future use in human health impact reductions. It further discusses the interactions between vulnerability, resilience and adaptation, and concludes with suggestions for future research.