Climate change assessment, together with climate change adaptation process, would be one of the worldwide important issues, and the study on climate change vulnerability indicator has been an essential problem for climate change adaptation. Vulnerability indicator can be used as a good tool to estimate the impact of climate change and to map out the distribution of its vulnerability over the given area both in Korea and other countries. This study addressed the conceptual summary on the assessment of climate change and its adaptation process. Previous studies on how to yield the vulnerability indicators of climate change are reviewed and several previous results of vulnerability indicators applied to Korean provinces are also discussed here.

Abstract
 1. 서 론
 2. 기후 변화 적응 및 취약성 개념
 3. 기후 변화 취약성 지수 선행 연구
  3.1. 국외 연구
  3.2. 국내 연구
 4. 취약성 지수 정량화 방법
 5. 취약성 지수 연구 결과 및 향후 연구 전망
 6. 결 론
 참 고 문 헌

• 홍성철(국립환경과학원 기후변화연구과) | Sung-Cheol Hong (Climate Change Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
• 유정아(국립환경과학원 기후변화연구과) | Jeonga Yoo (Climate Change Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
• 홍유덕(국립환경과학원 기후변화연구과) | Youdeog Hong (Climate Change Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
• 송창근(국립환경과학원 기후변화연구과) | Chang-Keun Song (Climate Change Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research)
• 김은화(부산대학교 지구환경시스템학부 대기과학전공) | Eun-Hwa Kim (Division of Earth Environmental System, Pusan National University)
• 김철희(부산대학교 지구환경시스템학부 대기과학전공) | Cheol-Hee Kim (Division of Earth Environmental System, Pusan National University) Corresponding Author