I need to know how adaptable a community to climate change, so I need to understand how to measure values of vulnerability, risks, hazard, CDF and exposures.
You should be more precise which climate area you are working in and how it changes......by more flooding periods, extended dry season, landslides appears, tsunami, by tropical diseases appears in areas that haven't been influenced yet...it can also influence on fishery and agriculture....
The measures vary according to the geographical location, climatic variations, etc. but still following references might be helpful.
Bankoff, G., Frerks, G. and Hilhorst, D., 2006. Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People, Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Anderson, L., Samuelsson, P. & Kjellstrom, E., 2011. Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Water Resources in the Pungwe River Basin, Tellus A. 63: 138-157.
Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., Davis, I. and Wisner, B., 1994. At Risk- Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability, and Disasters, Routledge Press, London.
Cutter, S. L., Mitchell, J.T and Scott, M.S., 2000. Revealing the Vulnerability of People and Places: A Case Study of Georgetown County, South Carolina, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 90 (4): 713-737.
Jianchu, X., Shrestha, A., Vaidya, R., Eriksson, M. and Hewitt, K., 2007. The Melting Himalayas: Regional Challenges and Local Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Ecosystems and Livelihoods, ICIMOD Technical Paper, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal.
I would like to add that you have to define the domain and scale before entering into the subject. you have to see the process, the actor and the entity and accordingly you have to define these all.
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