ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Climate change
Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review.
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- Mental Health Disparities From Climate Change: The Role of Housing Insecurity and LGBTQ+ Identity, California, 2023.American journal of public health · 2026Article
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- An integrated climate-structured personal and ambient air pollution monitoring framework embedded within a pregnancy and postpartum cohort in Sub-Saharan Africa.Frontiers in global women's health · 2026Article
- Perceived changes in extreme weather among older people - insights from Austria.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Exploring climate-related health risks and behaviors among vulnerable populations in the eastern Mediterranean: the cases of Jewish and Bedouin Negev desert residents.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Cultural and Institutional Factors Driving Severe Repetitive Flood Losses: Insights From the Jersey Shore.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025Article
- Designing a multidimensional vulnerability index for supervising dengue cases from 2015 to 2020 in a low/middle-income country: A spatial principal component analysis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Observational
- Projections of climate change vulnerability along the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 2020-2100.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Determinants of climate change risk perception in Latin America.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Differential Mortality Trends at the Intersection of Climate Change and Urban Growth From 13th to 18th Century Berlin.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Characterizing climate change sentiments in Alaska on social media.Digital geography and society · 2025Article
- Association between climate related hazards and depression among coastal communities in Indonesia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Centering voices of scientists from marginalized backgrounds to understand experiences in climate adaptation science and inform action.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
The varied effects of recent extreme weather events around the world exemplify the uneven impacts of climate change on populations, even within relatively small geographic regions. Differential human vulnerability to environmental hazards results from a range of social, economic, historical, and political factors, all of which operate at multiple scales. While adaptation to climate change has been the dominant focus of policy and research agendas, it is essential to ask as well why some communities and peoples are disproportionately exposed to and affected by climate threats. The cases and synthesis presented here are organized around four key themes (resource access, governance, culture, and knowledge), which we approach from four social science fields (cultural anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and sociology). Social scientific approaches to human vulnerability draw vital attention to the root causes of climate change threats and the reasons that people are forced to adapt to them. Because vulnerability is a multidimensional process rather than an unchanging state, a dynamic social approach to vulnerability is most likely to improve mitigation and adaptation planning efforts. This article is categorized under:Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values-Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation.
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