Vulnerability assessment of water resources to climate change in Chinese cities

Abstract： Climate change is an inevitable trend, which challenges security of water resources in China, especially in cities. Assessing vulnerability of water resource to climate change in cities has important role for policy makers The paper constructs a vulnerability function, including exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity, according to the vulnerability concept proposed by IPCC, establishes an assessment indicators system of water resources to climate change in cities', and analyzes' vulnerability features of Chinese cites based on 655 cities' data in 2006. The vulner ability assessment results show that there are distinctive differences among all the cities, between east, central and west cities, between ordinary, big and mega cities, while there is no statistical significant difference between north and south cities. Based on the research, the paper suggests that strategic emphasis should focus on the central cities and rdinary cities 作 者： ZHOU Jing-bo    ZOU Ji   作者單位： School of Environmental and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beoijing 100872, P R. China  期 刊： 生態經濟（英文版）    Journal： ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY  年，卷(期)： 2010, 06(2)  分類號： X3  Keywords： City    Water resources    Climate change    Assessment    Vulnerability    Adaptive capacity   

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