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Module Table 2: Alternative analytical frameworks and their advantages and limitations.
5 Type Components Advantages and limitations

1. Exposure to environmental
Vulnerability
change Advantage:
? Identifies areas where potential for unsustainability
2. Capacity to adapt to change Disadvantage:
may be greatest
9-12 December, 2013 Ecosystem Ecosystem services: Advantage:

? Not directly suitable for whole system analysis

Well-being
? Provisioning
environment and human well-being interaction.
? Regulating
? Cultural ? Systematic linkages among many dimensions of the
? Research more focused and provides for new data.
Human wellbeing: ? Highlights emerging issues which require immediate
? The necessary material for a policy response.
good life Disadvantage:
? Health ? Detailed and complicated terminology.
? Good social relations to help ? Relevance not immediate for policymakers.
others and provide for children; ? Selective analysis of ecosystems.
? Security, human-made disasters; ? Still in relative infancy.
and
? Freedom and choice

Capital ? Natural capital Advantages:
based ? Human-built capital ? Solid basis in economic valuation and capital
? Social capital providing increased relevance for decision-makers.
? Human capital
Disadvantages:
? Some resistance by practitioners to extending to the
concept of capital to environmental and social domain

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