During November and December 2006, a set of charts was produced showing the different sets of social and biophysical relations and processes that take place in relation to human development. Climate change is featured as one of these processes, itself the product of anthropological and biophysical inputs, it impacts on human and ecological networks that have interacted in a complex web to produce human and environmental vulnerability and resilience that enhanced or speeded up climate change and variability now impacts on. The purpose here is to identify all the processes in play, including climate change, that are affected or take part in the production of vulnerability, to show these operating within a system with inputs, processes and outputs (one of which is social and ecological vulnerability) and to demonstrate how adaptation then feeds back into the same system. These charts are currently being used in training modules.
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