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2. Adaptation to GEC (Section 5) Vulnerability Concepts (Section 1) Approaches (Section 2) Methods (Section 3) Environmental change (Section 4) Adaptation in practice (Section 6)

3. Turn to person next to you:  What do you understand by the term vulnerability?  Why is it important to understand given climate change?

4.  Vulnerability  Risk and vulnerability definitions ▪ Focus on exposure, sensitivity and resilience  Conceptual approaches ▪ Risk/Hazard ▪ Political economy/ecology ▪ Ecological resilience

5.  Assessing vulnerability  Scoping vulnerability assessment  Questions for initial framing of VA  Livelihood vulnerability ▪ Qualitative ▪ Quantitative  Indicators and mapping  Agent-based modelling  Scenarios

6.  Environmental change  Film: Wake up, freak out, get a grip  What is global environmental change?  IPCC process of examining climate change  Evidence of change ▪ Africa ▪ South Africa

7.  Adaptation  Concept  Builds on understanding of vulnerability  Adaptive capacity  Types of adaptation  Adaptation in eThekwini municipality  4 phases  Municipal adaptation plans  Community adaptation plans  Sekhukhune district  Impacts of climate variability on livelihoods and municipality  The need to focus on adaptation in the water sector