Sectoral Impact Analysis Methodology within the Scope of Climate Change Adaptation

The reality that climate change inevitably affects our world at present is taken into consideration  and adaptation to climate change studies are becoming more pronounced at international  scale. Although there are some studies related to the determination of adaptation measures  in our country and in the world, there is still no common methodology for adaptation on a measurable  basis. In this study, a new approach developed under the “Effects of Climate Change  on Water Resources Project” was used to execute a sectorial vulnerability analysis. Sectorial  vulnerability analyses have great importance in terms of determining the most vulnerable sector  to climate change and of the related policy.  In this study, the methodology of sectorial vulnerability analysis is explained in water  intended for human consumption sector for 2060s and at the scale of Buyuk Menderes River  Basin. The results showed that the impact level was expected as “medium” for the water intended  for human consumption sector.