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Conceptualizing urban vulnerability to global climate and environmental change
Patricia Romero Lankao,Hua Qin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review explores how urban vulnerability has been framed in recent climate change and risk research and examines the contributions and limitations each of these approaches can make to research and policy.
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Vulnerability to Earthquake Hazard: Bucharest Case Study, Romania
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an overall vulnerability index to seismic hazard based on a spatial approach applied to Bucharest, Romania, the most earthquake-prone capital in the European Union.
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A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
Billie Turner,Roger E. Kasperson,Roger E. Kasperson,Pamela A. Matson,James J. McCarthy,Robert W. Corell,Lindsey Christensen,Noelle Eckley,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Amy Luers,Marybeth L. Martello,Colin Polsky,Colin Polsky,Alexander Pulsipher,Andrew Schiller +15 more
TL;DR: A vulnerability framework for the assessment of coupled human–environment systems is presented and it is shown that vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone but also resides in the sensitivity and resilience of the system experiencing such hazards.
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Revealing the Vulnerability of People and Places: A Case Study of Georgetown County, South Carolina
TL;DR: In this article, a reorientation of emergency management systems away from simple post-event response is discussed, and a noticeable change in the focus of disaster management systems is observed.
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The Vulnerability of Science and the Science of Vulnerability
TL;DR: The authors examines the inadequacies in our current modes of understanding (the vulnerability of science) and the need for more integrative approaches in understanding and responding to environmental hazards (vulnerability science).
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The Hazards of Indicators: Insights from the Environmental Vulnerability Index
TL;DR: The Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) as mentioned in this paper was developed by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) to measure vulnerability to environmental change, and has been widely used in the literature.
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Knowing better and losing even more: the use of knowledge in hazards management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined four possible explanations for the situation in which more is lost while more is known: (1) knowledge continues to be flawed by areas of ignorance; (2) knowledge is available but not used effectively; (3) knowledge was used effectively but takes a long time to have effect; and (4) knowledge used effectively in some respects but is overwhelmed by increases in vulnerability and in population, wealth, and poverty.