ABSTRACT
Poverty and climate change vulnerability are widely regarded as being closely linked; however, this is based on a fairly generic understanding of vulnerability and adaptive capacity. There remains a scarcity of empirical research on how climate-related impacts affect livelihoods across and within groups of poor people on the ground (Tanner & Mitchell, 2008). The livelihoods of extremely poor people depend on similar climate-sensitive resources to those of less poor farmers, but in importantly distinct ways; however this has been the subject of relatively less climate change research to date. The research presented below (Coirolo, 2013) represents a critical gap, given that some regions with the highest concentrations of extreme poverty are also likely to experience the most severe impacts from climate change (Scott, 2008).
