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Assessment of vulnerability to climate change mainly involves research into the exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity levels of a system in the presence of a specific impact, for example, rising frequency of floods. Vulnerability is a dynamic concept, as exposure to climate change and the capacity to cope with those impacts shifts across temporal and spatial scales. The governing factors of vulnerability assessment studies mainly include scale of assessment; the kind of impact or hazard being considered; and the target group or system being assessed.