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A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment among Small Farmers: A Case Study in Western Honduras.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment among Small Farmers: A Case Study in Western Honduras./
Author:	Caceres, Claudia.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	135 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-11B.
Subject:	Climate change. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28265023
ISBN:	9798738626739

A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment among Small Farmers: A Case Study in Western Honduras.
Caceres, Claudia.

A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment among Small Farmers: A Case Study in Western Honduras. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 135 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Climate change is now affecting every known society. Small farmers in Low Income Countries (LICs) are especially vulnerable to climate change patterns because they depend heavily on rain, seasonality patterns, and known temperature ranges. To help build climate change resilient communities among rural farmers, the first step is to understand the impact of climate change on the population. This dissertation aims to use information and communication technology (ICT) to assess climate change vulnerabilities among rural farmers. To achieve this overall goal, this dissertation first proposes a comprehensive Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Framework (CCVAF) that integrates both community level and individual household level indicators. The CCVAF was instantiated into a GIS-based web application named THRIVE for different decision makers to better assess how climate change is affecting rural farmers in Western Honduras. Qualitative evaluation of the THRIVE showed that it is an innovative and useful tool. The CCVAF and its instantiation provides an important initial step towards building climate change resilience among rural farmers. It is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive set of the indicators with related measurements and data sources for climate change vulnerability assessment. The framework thus contributes to the knowledge base of the climate change vulnerability assessment. It also contributes to the design science literature by providing guidelines to design a class of climate change vulnerability assessment solutions. To the best of our knowledge, the CCVAF is the first generalizable artifact that can be used to build a group of ICT-based climate change vulnerability assessment solutions. Another knowledge contribution of this dissertation is its reproducibility by making the input and output data available to the research and practitioner community through a GeoHub. For practical contributions, the framework can be easily used by researchers and practitioners to consistently design a vulnerability assessment tool, starting with the set of indicators organized by the three-level determinants, and following specific spatial data analysis and models. Such an ICT-based tool adds practical values to tackle climate change challenges.

ISBN: 9798738626739Subjects--Topical Terms:

2079509
Climate change.
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Honduras

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