Compilation of Vulnerability Database

exposure | socio-economics

Exposure

Global Geographical Distribution of Vulnerability to Climate Change

Published by CIESIN, Columbia University. The assessment and mapping effort was based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report (TAR) and the IPCC scenarios from the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES). The assessment used the Vulnerability-Resilience Indicator Model (VRIM) of PNNL-JGCRI, the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) jointly created by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, and the Country Specific Model for Intertemporal Climate (COSMIC) from the Climate Research Group of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The maps is based on projection of mean temperature and adaptive capacity

Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections

Published by Socioeconomic Data and Application Center (SEDAC). This data set contain 426 indicators and 38 ancillary variables is available for download in comma-separated values (CSV), SPSS and Stata formats bundled in a zip file. The data contain both indicator of environmental exposure as well as socio-economic indicators.

Link to the database

Tydal Center Climate Data

A time series of observation (1961-1990) and projection (2071-2100) of the following variable for a number of countries.

Link to the downloadable dataset

FAO AQUASTAT Climate Information Tool

This database provides an interactive tool to query a spatial data-set containing mean monthly climate data. The data-set covers the global land surface at a 10 minute spatial resolution for the period 1961-1990. The tool displays the latitude, longitude and elevation of the chosen location, and the following climate variables per month:

Link to the database

Global Desertification Vulnerability Map

Geographical distribution of desertification from US Natural Resource Conservation Services

download high resolution map >> download

CReSIS Sea Level Rise Maps

Provide maps of Geographical distribution of Sea level rise according to various scenario of sea level rise (1-6 meter) by Center for Remote Sensing and Ice Sheet (CReSIS).

Link to the map of Souteast Asian Region

UNEP Geodata Portal

The contents of the GEO Data Portal are guided by the data strategy for the GEO process, and can be related to: (i) societal driving forces (economic development, population); (ii) environmental pressures (emissions, pollution); (iii) state-of-the-environment (air, land and water); and (iv) impacts on natural ecosystems and human health (biodiversity loss, diseases, life expectancy etc.). Thus, the Data Portal hosts data sets such as: population size and growth, educational enrollment, GDP per capita, land cover, CO2 and other green-house gas emissions, natural disasters and many, many more.

The data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.

Example of map from Geodata Portal

Mapping Philippine Vulnerability to Environmental Disasters

Published by the Manila Observatory. Collection of maps showing areas in the Philippine that are at high vulnerability and risk to environmental disasters. Environmental disasters refer to the collective impacts of damaging events on our surroundings. Hazards and disasters are mapped and analyzed via geographic information systems (GIS), environmental modeling tools and resulting spatial databases. The variables related to climate and weather include:

  • risk to projected temperature increase
  • risk to projected rainfall change
  • risk to typhoon
  • risk to el-nino

Data from NAPA Cambodja

Data from Cambodja National Adaptation Program of Action to Climate Change (NAPA) submitted by Royal Government of Cambodja to UNFCC. The document contain variables disaggregated by region:

  • Level of vulnerability to draught
  • Level of vulnerability to flood

Download document

Low Elevation Coastal Zone Urban-Rural Estimates

Country-level estimates of urban, rural and total population and land area in a low elevation coastal zone (LECZ) were generated globally using Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) alpha population and land area data products and a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) derived from Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) remote sensing data.

Download dataset

The website also contains the map of population density within and outside of 10m low level elevation zone for the following SEA countries:

Example of the map

Detailed Methodology is published in:

McGranahan, G., D. Balk and B. Anderson. 2007. The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones. Environment & Urbanization 19(1): 17-37 (2007). International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). http://eau.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/17

Socio-economics

ADB Key Indicators

List of relevant (for climate change vulnerability) variables (and link to regional table in 2007):

The list and link to the excel file of ADB Key Indicators 2007 for SEA + China:

For all other Asian countries >> other countries

For other year: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999


World Bank's World Development Indicator (WDI)

WDI is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2008 WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.

Link to selected free access >> WDI Free

Relevant variables include

List of all available indicators in WDI >> List of Indicators


United Nations Population Information Network

Official UN estimates (1950-2005) and projections (2005-2050) for every country in the world, including estimates and projections of 28 demographic indicators, including birth rates, deaths rates, infant mortality rates and life expectancy.

Note: including projection to 2050

Link to the database

Detailed List of variables (Link to more description of the variables >> description)

ASEAN Statistical Yearbook

ASEAN Secretariat provide statistical data for its member countries.

Available statistics from ASEAN Secretariat >> ASEAN Statistics

The relevant statistics include ASEAN statistical yearbook which contain the following information

Link to ASEAN Statistical Yearbook

UNDP Human Development Report (Global Report)

Featuring the Human Development Index, every report presents agenda-setting data and analysis and calls international attentions to issues and policy options that put people at the center of strategies to meet the challenges of development today - economic, social, political, and cultural.

HDR statistics contains the following data (by themes)

List of relevan variables (available only for national level) including the data for 2007 >> variables

Link to HDR Global Report by year of publication

National Human Development Report

Some countries produce Human Development Report for certain years. This publication contain some indicators/data for selected socioeconomic variables relevants for constructing Human Development Index.

Note: Availability of indicators vary by countries, some only produce maps.

Example of map from Indonesian HDR 2004

Recapitulation of availability of socioeconomic data from National HDR for SEA + China

Link to download the national HDR for SEA + China

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia (2005, by state)

Philippines

Thailand

VietNam

China


Statistics from Individual Country's Agency

Statistics Agency and Central Bank of individual countries usually provide selected socioeconomic statistics which could be disaggregated up to sub-national level. Central Bank mostly provide aggregate macro and financial variables but statistics agency may provide more socioeconomic statistics.

Below are the the link to those agencies. Detail availability of data including the level of sub-national disaggregation may vary and need more identification.

Brunei Darussalam

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

VietNam

China