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Vuln-Indices: Software to assess vulnerability to climate change

Authors :: Romain Lardy
Gianni Bellocchi
Raphaël Martin
Unité de recherche sur l'Ecosystème Prairial (UREP)
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
BRF VulClim
European Project: 266018,EC:FP7:KBBE,FP7-KBBE-2010-4,ANIMALCHANGE(2011)
UR 0874 Unité de recherche sur l'Ecosystème Prairial
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Unité de recherche sur l'Ecosystème Prairial (UREP)-Ecologie des Forêts, Prairies et milieux Aquatiques (EFPA)
Source :: Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Elsevier, 2015, 114, pp.53-57. ⟨10.1016/j.compag.2015.03.016⟩, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (114), 53-57. (2015)
Publication Year :: 2015
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2015.
Abstract: Vulnerability assessment to climate change is an issue of concern.We develop Java-based software for vulnerability assessment to climate change.We illustrate the software in vulnerability assessments of European grasslands. Vuln-Indices Java-based software was developed on concepts of vulnerability to climate change of agro-ecological systems. It implements the calculation of vulnerability indices on series of state variables for assessments at both site and region levels. The tool is useful because synthetic indices help capturing complex processes and prove effective to identify the factors responsible for vulnerability and their relative importance. It is suggested that the tool may be plausible for use with stakeholders to disseminate information of climate change impacts.