The Second National Communication on Climate Change of Montenegro to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Year of publication
2015
Specific thematic area
Climate adaptation and/or mitigation
Sector of governance
Climate change
Type of human mobility
Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Not available
Type of environmental driver
Flooding
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Sudden-onset
Sub-region
Southern Europe
Region
Southern Europe
Macro-region
Europe
Relevant GCM objective
- GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available
This is why the term “vulnerability” can refer to the vulnerability of the system itself, for example due to the low level of islands or coastal towns; it can refer to influences on such systems - like the flooding of coastal areas and agricultural lands, forced migration; or it can refer to the mechanisms that cause such influences. Thus, the vulnerability of systems to climate change, variability and extremes, refers to their physical, social and economic prospects. Therefore we can say that greater levels of exposure or sensitivity cause greater levels of vulnerability. Adaptive capacity is inversely proportionate to vulnerability; the higher it is, the lower is vulnerability.
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