Rural households’ livelihood vulnerability to climate variability and extremes: a livelihood zone-based approach in the Northeastern Highlands of Ethiopia

Ecological Processes

Table 5 Indicators of sensitivity and overall average sensitivity risk levels across the livelihood zones

Livelihood zones	Indicators of sensitivity								Overall average sensitivity risk level
	Population density**		Slope		Soil type erodibility		Accessibility travel time		Overall average sensitivity risk level
	Mean	Normalized	Mean(%)	Normalized	Mean Erodibility factor (a*)	Normalized	Mean (minutes)	Normalized	Normalized	Level of risk
ABB	71.1	0.00	37.55	1.00	0.20	0.00	76.77	1.00	0.50	Moderate
Meher	134	0.41	30.19	0.32	0.21	0.50	42.76	0.10	0.33	Low
Belg	184.6	0.73	33.01	0.58	0.21	0.50	46.27	0.19	0.50	Moderate
Meher-Belg	212.8	0.91	29.78	0.29	0.20	0.00	44.46	0.14	0.33	Low
CHV	200.6	0.83	26.68	0.00	0.22	1.00	39.12	0.00	0.46	Moderate
SWS	226.5	1.00	30.23	0.33	0.21	0.50	59.05	0.53	0.59	Moderate
Variance		0.14		0.12		0.14		0.14
Root variance		0.38		0.34		0.38		0.38
1/Root variance		2.65		2.95		2.66		2.66
Sum		10.91
K		0.09
W		0.24		0.27		0.24		0.24

Note: ** and * are from 2019 Ethiogis-3 population data catalog and soil erodibility factors related to soil types (in Hurni et al. 2015, and Gelagay and Minale 2016) respectively
Data on sensitivity component indicators (population density, slope, soil type erodibility, and accessibility travel time) for each livelihood zone were derived using zonal statistics in ArcGIS