A District Level Climate Change Vulnerability Index of Pakistan

Arif Rahman and Aneel Salman
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Arif Rahman: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad
Aneel Salman: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad

No 2013:05, CEECC Working Paper from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Abstract: In the wake of devolution and decentralisation in Pakistan there is a greater need to devise localised vulnerability to climate change indices as an easy reference for both policy-makers and the development sector. While global vulnerability indices are commercially motivated and based on country level data, ranking the degree of vulnerability to climate change across nations represents a �number� aimed at directing, inter alia, development, disaster and aid efforts among countries. These indices however, fail to highlight subnational vulnerabilities existing within countries being ranked. Using the IPCC�s definitions of vulnerability in the context of climate change as a reference source, this study devises a district level vulnerability to climate change index for 22 districts of Pakistan. The Index shows that there exists a varying degree of vulnerability between districts and a further variation across the rural and urban divide of each district.

Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2013
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