Student: Audrey Stuart
Graduation date: May 2017
Capstone type: Thesis
Capstone project:
Measuring Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Ghana
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This thesis examines social vulnerability to climate change, particularly how it is conceptualized and measured through social vulnerability indices. Various indices used in Ghana are compared to each other and to nation-scale indices in order to untangle the assumptions built into them and the the types of interventions they favor. This analysis occurs within a larger discussion of development aid and global power dynamics; interventions aimed at building adaptive capacity in peripheral nations may reenforce global inequality.