Climate changes will have significant impacts on various sectors such as water management, ecosystem, natural resources, industry and human health. Especially, it will make water security more difficult and costly to achieve. This study seeks to investigate the current (2000-2010) vulnerability to flood and drought and those in the future (2046～2055) at the case of Gochang County. The vulnerability definition was adopted by IPCC that is a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. The results of flood vulnerability showed that East Gochang area was more vulnerable than West in the present. However, in the future period, the South Gochang area would be potentially more vulnerable than others to flood due to the climate change. In case of drought, the result showed that the drought vulnerability of North Gochang area would increase in the future. The results of the vulnerability assessment could be applicable to the taking measures of water management for climate change adaptation and determining the priority area.
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