Hi Paula,

Here is one paper published by CDC on social vulnerability index for disaster management which can be climate change related disaster like a hurricane:

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/svi/a%20social%20vulnerability%20index%20for%20disaster%20management.pdf 

Dear Paula, it might be useful to ask Professor Kenneth and follow his answers on questions related to climate change impacts.

Kind regards

Kenneth M Towe

This is his full name

Thanks all for your answers!

http://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-climate-change/jcc170015

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319074248_An_Innovative_Model_for_Engagement_of_Rural_CitizensCommunity_of_Bangladesh_with_Climate_Change

Article An Innovative Model for Engagement of Rural Citizens/Communi...

There is so much literature in this field, so that it becomes essential to further specify what you would like to do. Impact on what? Countries? the most vulnerable population? ecosystems?

I work about vulnerable population to natural hazards, whether climate change intensifies these hazards or not plays a secondary, although important role.

I would recommend the following literature:

peer reviewed journal papers

Haynes, Michelle A.; Kung, King-Jau Samuel; Brandt, Jodi S.; Yongping, Yang; Waller, Donald M.

Accelerated climate change and its potential impact on Yak herding livelihoods in the eastern Tibetan plateau

Springer-Verlag

Climatic Change

Year:2014

Month:03

Volume:123

Issue:2

First page:147

Last page:160

Jouni Paavola

Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania

Elsevier

Environmental Science & Policy

Year:2008

Volume:11

Issue:7

First page:642

Last page:654

Keffing Sissoko; Herman van Keulen; Jan Verhagen; Vera Tekken; Antonella Battaglini

Agriculture, livelihoods and climate change in the West African Sahel

Springer-Verlag

Regional Environmental Change

Year:2011

Month:03

Day:

Volume:11

Issue:1 Supplement

First page:119

Last page:125

Matthew Bunce; Sergio Rosendo; Katrina Brown

Perceptions of climate change, multiple stressors and livelihoods on marginal African coasts

Springer-Verlag

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Year:2010

Month:06

Day:

Volume:12

Issue:3

First page:407

Last page:440

Connolly-Boutin, Liette; Smit, Barry

Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

Springer-Verlag

Regional Environmental Change

Year:2016

Month:2

Day:13

Volume:16

Issue:2

First page:385

Last page:399

Musinguzi, Laban; Efitre, Jackson; Odongkara, Konstantine; Ogutu-Ohwayo, Richard; Muyodi, Fredrick; Natugonza, Vianny; Olokotum, Mark; Namboowa, Sharon; Naigaga, Shamim

Fishers’ perceptions of climate change, impacts on their livelihoods and adaptation strategies in environmental change hotspots: a case of Lake Wamala, Uganda

Springer-Verlag

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Year:2016

Month:8

Day:21

Volume:18

Issue:4

First page:1255

Last page:1273

Kangalawe, Richard Y. M.

Climate change impacts on water resource management and community livelihoods in the southern highlands of Tanzania

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Climate and Development

Year:2016

Month:02

Day:09

Volume:

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:11

Fischer, H. W.; Chhatre, A.

Assets, livelihoods, and the 'profile approach for analysis of differentiated social vulnerability in the context of climate change

Sage Publications

Environment and Planning A

Year:2016

Month:04

Day:01

Volume:48

Issue:4

First page:789

Last page:807

Ogutu-Ohwayo, Richard; Natugonza, Vianny; Musinguzi, Laban; Olokotum, Mark; Naigaga, Shamim

Implications of climate variability and change for African lake ecosystems, fisheries productivity, and livelihoods

Elsevier

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Year:2016

Month:4

Connell, John

Last days in the Carteret Islands? Climate change, livelihoods and migration on coral atolls

Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Year:2016

Month:04

Day:

Volume:57

Issue:1

First page:3

Last page:15

Bouroncle, Claudia; Imbach, Pablo; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Beatriz; Medellín, Claudia; Martinez-Valle, Armando; Läderach, Peter

Mapping climate change adaptive capacity and vulnerability of smallholder agricultural livelihoods in Central America: ranking and descriptive approaches to support adaptation strategies

Springer-Verlag

Climatic Change

Year:2017

Month:3

Day:28

Volume:141

Issue:1

First page:123

Last page:137

Ofoegbu, Chidiebere; Chirwa, Paxie; Francis, Joseph; Babalola, Folarannmi

Assessing vulnerability of rural communities to climate change: a review of implications for forest-based livelihoods in South Africa

Emerald (MCB UP )

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management

Year:2017

Month:05

Day:15

Volume:9

Issue:3

Parraguez-Vergara, Elvis; Barton, Jonathan R.; Raposo-Quintana, Gabriela

Impacts of Climate Change in the Andean Foothills of Chile: Economic and Cultural Vulnerability of Indigenous Mapuche Livelihoods

Sage Publications

Journal of Developing Societies

Year:2016

Month:12

Day:

Volume:32

Issue:4

First page:454

Last page:483

Gaur, Mahesh K.; Squires, Victor R.

Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands || Humans as Agents of Change in Arid Lands: With Special Reference to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, (China)

Springer-Verlag

book

Year:2018

Month:

Day:

Volume:10.1007/978-3-319-56681-8

Issue:Chapter 4

First page:75

Last page:90

Kellomäki, Seppo

Managing boreal forests in the context of climate change: impacts, adaptation and climate change mitigation

CRC Press

2017

Rodrigues, Renato de A. R.; Zolin, Cornelio Alberto

Impact of climate change on water resources in agriculture

CRC Press

2016

Frank Laczko, Etienne Piguet (auth.), Etienne Piguet, Frank Laczko (eds.)

Global Migration Issues 2

People on the Move in a Changing Climate: The Regional Impact of Environmental Change on Migration [1 ed.]

Springer Netherlands

2014

Julie Koppel Maldonado, Benedict Colombi, Rajul Pandya (eds.)

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Impacts, Experiences and Actions [1 ed.]

Springer International Publishing

2014