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Managing risk with climate vulnerability science

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Climate information alone cannot be sufficient for anticipating and reducing climate impacts. Enhanced vulnerability science is needed, including local to global monitoring, to support effective anticipatory efforts to increase societal resilience to potentially disruptive events.

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Figure 1: Schematic model of links between climate events and outcomes of security concern.

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  1. National Research Council, 20001, Washington DC, USA

    Paul C. Stern

  2. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 7491, Norway

    Paul C. Stern

  3. ClimAdapt, LLC, Los Altos, 94022, California, USA

    Kristie L. Ebi

  4. Department of Geography, Rutgers University, Piscataway, 08854, New Jersey, USA

    Robin Leichenko

  5. Extreme Events Institute, Florida International University, Miami, 33199, Florida, USA

    Richard Stuart Olson

  6. School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, Maryland, USA

    John D. Steinbruner

  7. Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, 90401, California, USA

    Robert Lempert

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Stern, P., Ebi, K., Leichenko, R. et al. Managing risk with climate vulnerability science. Nature Clim Change 3, 607–609 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1929

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