Workshop On Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change: Challenges for Research, Assessment and Decision Making

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This Workshop focused on questions about the vulnerability of social and ecological systems as a central focus of policy-driven assessments of global environmental risks. Participants included communities of decision-oriented vulnerability assessors for global environmental change issues, research-oriented vulnerability scholars generally focusing on regional scale human-environment interactions, and those conducting vulnerability assessments that assist in targeting improved intervention and mitigation strategies. An integrated framework for vulnerability-based assessments of climate and other global changes was sketched. This framework has the potential to improve significantly the production of policy-relevant insights into the social and environmental implications of global environmental change