Researcher(s):
Audrey Stuart
ENVS course(s): 400, 499 Initiated: September 2016 Completed: May 2017 Go to project site
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This project 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.