Rural households’ livelihood vulnerability to climate variability and extremes: a livelihood zone-based approach in the Northeastern Highlands of Ethiopia

• Published in: Ecological processes Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 55
• Main Authors: Mekonen, Abebe Arega, Berlie, Arega Bazezew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 03.08.2021; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Adaptive capacity; assets; basins; Capacity; cattle; climate; Climate change; Climate effects; Climate variability; Components; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; erodibility; Ethiopia; Exposure; Farming systems; Farms; focus groups; Highlands; Households; Identification; Indicators; infrastructure; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; issues and policy; Livelihood; Livelihoods; Livestock; Population pressure; probability; Probability theory; questionnaires; Rain; Rainfall; risk assessment; Rural areas; Sampling methods; Sensitivity; Social networks; Social organization; Soil erosion; Sorghum; Sullivan and Meigh’s model; Surveying; surveys; temperature; Temperature data; topography; Variability; Vulnerability; Vulnerability Index; Ethiopia; Sullivan and Meigh’s model; Sensitivity; Exposure; Vulnerability Index; Adaptive capacity; Ethiopia

Background The adverse effects of climate variability and extremes exert increasing pressure on rural farm households whose livelihoods are dependent on nature. However, integrated and area-specific vulnerability assessments in Ethiopia in general and the study area, in particular, are scarce and in...