Abstract

Vulnerability Assessment for Agriculture to Climate Change
Track: Climate Change
Authors: Nam Kijun, Lee Woo-Kyun, Jung Raesun, Kwak Hanbin, Kim Moon-Il, Lee Seungjun

This work used ModelBuilder and Spatial analysis tool by ArcMap10. The Basic data was obtained by Statistics Korea. This analyzes the vulnerability of South Korea agriculture to climate change by developing a vulnerability indices and comparing vulnerability indicators all over the country. Agricultural activities are perhaps one of the most vulnerable and sensitive sectors to climate change. The general consensus is that changes in temperature and precipitation will result in changes in land and water regimes that will subsequently affect agricultural productivity. 13 environmental and socio-economic indicators are identified to reflect the three components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. This framework combines exposure with sensitivity to give the potential impact, which is then compared with the adaptive capacity to yield an overall measure of vulnerability. And also Assessment studies on the vulnerability of climate change have been based on climate scenarios for future vulnerability