Under the basic assumption that national climate change risk and vulnerability are closely linked with a country's resilience to climate change, we analysed how some aspects of culture are related to risk and vulnerability. Individualism/collectivism, religiousness and cultural heterogeneity are...

Under the basic assumption that national climate change risk and vulnerability are closely linked with a country's resilience to climate change, we analysed how some aspects of culture are related to risk and vulnerability. Individualism/collectivism, religiousness and cultural heterogeneity are...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the UN Member States, have been specifically proposed to address some of the main socio-environmental and economic problems affecting developed and developing countries. Based on and expanding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which...

This report proposes an index to identify those countries most vulnerable to climate change and to rank them according to their eligibility for funding within the context of the EU Global Climate Change Alliance plus Flagship Initiative (GCCA+). The report is organised as follows. Chapter 1...

This report proposes an index to identify those countries most vulnerable to climate change and to rank them according to their eligibility for funding within the context of the EU Global Climate Change Alliance plus Flagship Initiative (GCCA+). The report is organised as follows. Chapter 1...

This report analyses the differential impact of extreme weather events in the presence of social inequalities. It hypothesizes that social inequalities affect vulnerability and resilience through its impact on the capacity to cope and empirically analyses the differential impact of extreme...

This report aims to contribute to the debate on climate change policies and their link to development. A climate resilient perspective is adopted to understand how climate change policy objectives can be reconciled with development goals. The report reviews the main theoretical concepts that...

The increasing complexity of the present economic system and the strong interdependencies existing between production activities taking place in different world areas make modern societies vulnerable to crisis. The global supply-chain is a paradigmatic example of economic structures on which the...

The threats posed by climate change are increasingly seen as a major problem for the future of nature and humanity, and significant improvements are needed to set the world on a climate change resilient path to the future. At global, regional and local level there is an increasing demand from...

During the last two decades globalisation has been a key variable driving economic growth and raising the living standards of nearly everyone on the planet, although not without cost. Indeed, the growth in world trade resulting from globalisation is now increasingly seen as an issue in the...