Authors for this volume | Introduction | What can demographers contribute to the study of vulnerability? | Demographic Debate | Engagement of demographers in environmental issues from a historical perspective | The next best time for demographers to contribute to climate change research | Will climate change shift demography’s ‘normal science’? | Barriers to involvement of Chinese demographers in climate change research | Population dynamics and climate change: A challenging frontier for the intrepid demographer | Two statements on population and sustainable development produced by global scientific panels in 2002 and 2012 | Refereed Articles | Differential mortality patterns from hydro-meteorological disasters: Evidence from cause-of-death data by age and sex | Daily mortality changes in Taiwan in the 1970s: An examination of the relationship between temperature and mortality | Assessing the effectiveness of a social vulnerability index in predicting heterogeneity in the impacts of natural hazards: Case study of the Tropical Storm Washi flood in the Philippines | Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai | Who perceives what? A demographic analysis of subjective perception in rural Thailand | Who is concerned about and takes action on climate change? Gender and education divides among Thais | Future differential vulnerability to natural disasters by level of education | The demography of human development and climate change vulnerability: A projection exercise | A four-dimensional population module for the analysis of future adaptive capacity in the Phang Nga province of Thailand

The 2015 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research examines the role of demography in understanding and addressing vulnerability, particularly in the context of climate change and climate-related disasters. The invited contributions in “Demographic Debate” explore why demographers have been slow to engage with climate change research and highlight the potential contributions they can make, such as analysing the impacts of extreme climate events on mortality and assessing social vulnerability to natural hazards. The original articles address the issue of demographic differential vulnerability from different perspectives, drawing upon case studies from across the globe based on unique data and innovative methodologies. These contributions are topically divided into four broader sections. The first three look at the evidence on Differential mortality from extreme climate events, Spatial patterns of social vulnerability to weather and climate extremes, and Differential risk perceptions and climate actions. The fourth group of papers looks ahead and focus on forecasting future societies’ vulnerability and adaptive capacity through the lens of human capital. 

 

Demographic differential vulnerabilitiy to climate-related disasters

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Leiwen Jiang

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