South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas: Understanding the Social & Environmental Implications of Global Change. 2nd edition

Abstract

The success of the first edition of the South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas (SARVA), both as a publication and at COP17 (17th meeting of the ‘Conference of the Parties’ of the international treaty known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), as shown by the feedback received, has prompted the production of this second edition with more chapters based on themes and case studies. While this publication still targets local government, it has been designed to appeal to other users including academia. We do however, acknowledge that more integration is needed in terms of balancing between the social and the physical impacts of climate and global change.