Towards an assessment of adaptive capacity of the European agricultural sector to droughts
Published in Climate Services, 2017
Recommended citation: Williges, K, Mechler, R., Bowyer, P., and Balkovic, J., 2017. Assessing adaptive capacity and vulnerability of the European agricultural sector to droughts under 2° C of global warming. Climate Services, 7, pp. 47-63.
We assess a new method for assessing adaptive capacity (AC) at a sectoral level and operationalize AC measurement based on an sustainable livelihoods approach to assess the ability of the European agricultural sector to adapt to extreme droughts.