Vulnerability

Unit 2: Assessing climate change vulnerability in Mediterranean MPAs
Within this e-learning unit participants learned how to develop a social-ecological vulnerability assessment of MPAs to the impacts of climate change. The webinars focus on vulnerability assessment approaches and hands-on exercises on the development of vulnerability indicators at MPAs. Guidelines for vulnerability assessments have been presented, discussed and applied.

Webinar 6. Applying the climate vulnerability guidelines in your MPA
Moderator: Antonio Di Franco
Presentations: Elena Ojea & Francesca Barazzetta
Duration: 1h (30 min presentations + 30 minutes for questions)
Starting at: May 25th 2020 at 10:00 Central Europe Time
Learning goals: This session will walk the attendants through the guidelines for vulnerability assessments in MPAs and will explain how the methodology can be developed at the MPA level. The session includes materials (guidelines), a presentation by the authors and a practical exercise.
References
Cinner J E, Huchery C, Darling E S, Humphries A T, Graham N A, Hicks C C, Marshall N and McClanahan T R 2013 Evaluating social and ecological vulnerability of coral reef fisheries to climate change. PloS One 8 Online
Thiault L, Marshall P, Gelcich S, Collin A, Chlous F and Claudet J 2018 Mapping social–ecological vulnerability to inform local decision making Conserv. Biol. 32 447–56.

Webinar 7. Planning the ecological and social data collection
Moderator: Thomais Vlachogianni
Presentations: Elena Ojea & Francesca Barazzetta
Duration: 1h (30 min presentations + 30 minutes for questions)
Starting at: May 27th 2020 at 10:00 Central Europe Time
Learning goals: A hands-on approach to vulnerability assessments where the methods and procedures to collect data at the MPA level for indicators of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity will be presented. Attendants will have the chance to explore potential methodologies for data collection at their sites, build upon available data, resources and capacities.
References
Bennett N J, Blythe J, Tyler S and Ban N C 2016 Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures Reg. Environ. Change 16 907–26

Webinar 8. Putting numbers on vulnerability indicators
Moderator: Antonio Di Franco
Presentations: Elena Ojea & Francesca Barazzetta
Duration: 1h (30 min presentations + 30 minutes for questions)
Starting at: May 29th 2020 at 10:00 Central Europe Time
Learning goals: In this webinar, attendants will be able to start populating the vulnerability indicators at their MPAs in order to construct a vulnerability index. As a result, partners will have a systematic tool for collecting social-ecological climate vulnerability indicators at their conservation sites.