Vulnerable target groups

People are experiencing climate change in diverse ways, especially people living in small island nations and other developing countries are more vulnerable to climate impacts than others.
Areas of
Vulnerability
Scoping
Exposure is contact between a person and one or more biological, psychosocial, chemical, of physical stressors, including stressors affected by climate change
Sensitivity is the degree to which people or communities are affected, either adversely or beneficially, by climate variability or change.
Nomination of authors
Adaptive capacity is the ability of communities, institutions, or people to adjust to potential hazards such as climate change, to take advantage of opportunities, or to respond to consequences.
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