The IPCC definition characterizes vulnerability (to climate
change) as a function of a system’s exposure and sensitivity to climatic
stimuli and its capacity to adapt to their (adverse) effects,
which corresponds to outcome (or end-point) vulnerability, but it
does not provide a clear definition of these attributes or the relationship
between them. Using the same data, the LVI is based on the IPCC
vulnerability definition of adaptive capacity, exposure and sensitivity
(and as described by Hahn et al. (2009)). This entails grouping the
eight major components into each of these three categories (see
Fig. 1). The results of this analysis are reported in Table 3