Global Vulnerability Assessment
| Period: | 00/1990-00/1998 |
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| Location: | Worldwide |
| Client: | Dutch Ministery of Public Works, Transport and Water Management |
assignment/short description
One of the tasks of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) is to provide world wide, top-down, estimates of the socio-economic and ecological implications of accelerated sea level rise. Because conducting numerous country specific case studies would take decades, a Global Vulnerability Assessment (GVA) using the Common Methodology was conducted by Deltares/ Delft Hydraulics, under the auspices of the Dutch Ministery of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. The primary objective of the GVA was to generate some first vulnerability results on a regional and global scale. When combined, these world-wide exercises can be seen as a combination of a 'bottom-up' approach of the VA studies and a 'top-down' approach of the GVA. The GVA is meant to be a living document. The first GVA was published in 1992 and a revised edition was printed in 1993 to contribute to the World Coast Conference (WCC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 1993. In 1998, the GVA model has been linked with the integrated assessment model DIALOGUE of KEMA sustainable, The Netherlands. This model combination allows the dynamic integrated assessment of the coastal impacts for a wide variety of greenhouse gas emission scenarios.
