Indicator of physical vulnerability to climate change

Name: Indicator of physical vulnerability to climate change
Creator: Fondation pour les Études et Recherches sur le Développement International
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/

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This dataset provides the Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Indicator (PVCCI), which measures geophysical climate shocks and the exposure of countries and their territories to them. Maintained since 2001 by Ferdi (Fondation pour les Études et Recherches sur le Développement International), the indicator is structural, based on exogenous factors independent of current or future policy choices, and is intended for use in multidimensional vulnerability assessments. It covers 191 countries at national level, with a recently developed subnational version highlighting heterogeneity in physical vulnerability across territories within countries. Methodology has been published in Ecological Economics and several Ferdi working papers.The Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Indicator (PVCCI) measures climate shocks and the exposure of countries (national PVCCI) and their territories (subnational PVCCI) to these shocks. Since 2001, Ferdi has been calculating and updating an indicator of physical vulnerability to climate change (PVCCI). This work was the subject of several working papers, brief ones before being published in Ecological Economics (Feindouno, Guillaumont and Simonet, 2020).\ \ The PVCCI measures the geophysical risks faced by countries due to climate change. It is a structural index because it is based on exogenous factors that are independent of countries' current and future policies. It is therefore intended to be used in the definition of the multidimensional vulnerability index.\ \ The index is constructed for 191 countries, and with the aim of highlighting the heterogeneity of territories’ physical vulnerability to climate change, a disaggregated subnational PVCCI has recently been calculated (Goujon, Santoni and Wagner, 2022).

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Field	Type	Description
Country	text	Name of the country.Name of the country.
ISO	text	ISO code identifying the country.ISO code identifying the country.
Flooding due to sea level rise or melting glaciersFlooding due to sea level rise or melting glaciers	number	Component score for exposure to flooding from sea level rise or glacier melt.Component score for exposure to flooding from sea level rise or glacier melt.
Increasing AridityIncreasing aridity	number	Component score for exposure to increasing aridity.Component score for exposure to increasing aridity.
Rainfall	number	Component score for exposure to rainfall variability.Component score for exposure to rainfall variability.
Temperature	number	Component score for exposure to temperature change.Component score for exposure to temperature change.
Storms	number	Component score for exposure to storms.Component score for exposure to storms.
PVCCI	number	Overall Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Indicator score.Overall Physical Vulnerability to Climate Change Indicator score.
Rank	int	Country's rank based on its PVCCI score.Country's rank based on its PVCCI score.

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Record 1ISO: AFG · Rank: 42

{
  "ISO": "AFG",
  "Rank": "42",
  "PVCCI": "59.671954752049913",
  "Storms": "0",
  "Country": "Afghanistan",
  "Rainfall": "81.301299948219807",
  "Temperature": "55.241707427163675",
  "Increasing Aridity": "78.88058178610693",
  "Flooding due to sea level rise or melting glaciers": "43.817999999999998"
}

Record 2ISO: AGO · Rank: 112

{
  "ISO": "AGO",
  "Rank": "112",
  "PVCCI": "50.237237093855121",
  "Storms": "0",
  "Country": "Angola",
  "Rainfall": "70.727480455052586",
  "Temperature": "74.774092505948786",
  "Increasing Aridity": "45.003668565238442",
  "Flooding due to sea level rise or melting glaciers": "0.16842857003211975"
}

Record 3ISO: AIA · Rank: 38

{
  "ISO": "AIA",
  "Rank": "38",
  "PVCCI": "60.598795300121012",
  "Storms": "52.594505173094205",
  "Country": "Anguilla",
  "Rainfall": "68.038189006714887",
  "Temperature": "71.981394499252318",
  "Increasing Aridity": "37.052247173457062",
  "Flooding due to sea level rise or melting glaciers": "66.419143676757812"
}

Record 4ISO: ALB · Rank: 184

{
  "ISO": "ALB",
  "Rank": "184",
  "PVCCI": "41.696131096838556",
  "Storms": "0",
  "Country": "Albania",
  "Rainfall": "69.810137707649275",
  "Temperature": "48.325403597174393",
  "Increasing Aridity": "38.213002180955449",
  "Flooding due to sea level rise or melting glaciers": "4.8788571357727051"
}

Record 5ISO: AND · Rank: 167

{
  "ISO": "AND",
  "Rank": "167",
  "PVCCI": "44.942758527890618",
  "Storms": "0",
  "Country": "Andorra",
  "Rainfall": "71.845495969586395",
  "Temperature": "51.545350916353009",
  "Increasing Aridity": "47.75520105994314",
  "Flooding due to sea level rise or melting glaciers": "0"
}

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