Environmental vulnerability
What Environmental vulnerability means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Environmental vulnerability
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Reference: AQA
The varying susceptibility of different coastlines, where local factors such as isostatic rebound, coastal topography and existing defences mean impacts vary spatially.
The fragility of an ecosystem to environmental change, such as rapid ice shelf collapse on the Antarctic Peninsula due to global warming.
Topics that use Environmental vulnerability
- Antarctica as a global common (AQA A-Level)
- Coastal landscape development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Climate change
- Antarctic Convergence
- Coastal deposition
- Coastlines of emergence
- Environmental advocacy
- Eustatic change
- Fishing and whaling
- Geological structure and lithology
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