Ecological vulnerability indicators |
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| Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100101, PR China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China;3. Center for Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces (ZFL), University of Bonn, Bonn 53113, Germany;4. Remote Sensing Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn 53115,Germany;1. Graduate School of System and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058577, Japan;2. Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058577, Japan;1. Institute of Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, D11 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China;2. Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310058, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Protection and Utilization of Coal Mining, Beijing 100083, China;1. School of Resource and Environment Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China;2. Key Laboratory of Urban Land Resources Monitoring and Simulation, Ministry of Land and Resources, Shenzhen 518040, China;3. Shenzhen Urban Planning and Land Resource Research Center, Shenzhen 518034, China;4. Shenzhen Research Centre of Digital City Engineering, Shenzhen 518034, China;1. Department of Land Resource Management, College of Resources and Environment Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China;2. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Land Quality, Ministry of Land and Resources, Beijing 100193, China |
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| Abstract: | Indicators provide easy and quick information on the status or condition of an object of interest and are therefore widely used in policy-making. In recent years, policy interest in vulnerability research has increased and a growing number of studies have been aimed at developing vulnerability indicators. Some of these studies have been done within the social–ecological system (SES) framework, taking into account both social vulnerability and ecological vulnerability. A particular challenged faced, however, is with regard to the incorporation of indicators to capture the latter, especially as the concept of vulnerability as applied in ecology is relatively new and not yet well-explored. This paper expounds on this problem by answering the following questions: (1) How are the concept of vulnerability and thereby ecological vulnerability currently understood? (2) What are the challenges in the development and use of ecological vulnerability indicators? (3) What are the current efforts to overcome these challenges? One insight gathered is that due to the complexity, nonlinearity, and multiplicity of dynamics of natural systems, development of sufficiently general indicators of ecological vulnerability may not be realizable. Rather, ecological vulnerability assessment and the development of indicators thereof, whether done independent of the human system or within the SES, should be conducted at smaller scales and must be context-specific. |
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| Keywords: | Ecological vulnerability Ecosystem vulnerability Environmental vulnerability Vulnerability indicators |
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