• Regional, spatially explicit process models of land use change to project agricultural expansion, intensification, and abandonment; use of these to model the potential impacts of these changes on the major biogeochemical cycles, land - atmosphere exchange of water and energy, and human population dynamics • Place - based models of societal vulnerability and the various autonomous and planned adaptation pathways and coping strategies (climatesciencewatch.org)
Presently, there is simply no scientific basis for claims that the escalating cost of disasters is the result of anything other than increasing societal vulnerability. (rogerpielkejr.blogspot.ru)
These include identifying and understanding key environmental and societal vulnerabilities to global change over a range of time scales; developing a knowledge base to support regional and sectoral responses to global change; developing a knowledge base to support responses to global scale threats; and finally, creating and applying the tools and approaches needed to iteratively manage the risks of global change. (climatesciencewatch.org)