human and ecological systems, and also responses . The determinants of risk all can vary and change through space and time in response to socioeconomic development and decision making . Hazards are affected by current and future changes in climate, including altered climate variability and shifts in frequency and intensity of extreme events . Such hazards can be sudden, for example, a heat wave or heavy rain event, or slower onset, for example, land loss, degradation and erosion linked to multiple climate hazards compounding. The severity of climate change impacts will depend strongly on vulnerability, which is also dynamic and includes the sensitivity and adaptive capacity of affected human and ecological systems . As a result, risks vary at fine scale across communities and societies and also among people within societies, depending, for example, on intersecting inequalities and context-specific factors such as culture, gender, religion, ability and disability, or ethnicity . The dynamic social distribution of impacts is the subject of increasing attention within climate assessment and responses, including the role of adaptation, iterative risk management and climate resilient sustainable development .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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