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Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards
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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1006 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social vulnerability & Vulnerability.read more
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A quantitative risk assessment development using risk indicators for predicting economic damages in construction sites of South Korea
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest a quantitative risk assessment approach for construction sites using risk indicators to predict economic damages, which is based on the frequency of damage in building constru...
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Community disaster management assets: A case study of the farm community in Sussex County, Delaware
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study examined the assets of one community group, the farm community in Sussex County, Delaware, based on a community asset approach, which currently recognizes eight types of community capital and is comprised of active, inactive, positive, and negative resources.
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The impact of behavior on the risk of injury and death during an earthquake: a simulation-based study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors have taken an innovative approach and integrated behavioral traits of residents in a high-risk area in northern Israel, near the Dead Sea Transform, into a well-known casualty estimation simulation and found that households with low socioeconomic status were more vulnerable in terms of risk of injury and death compared with those ranked higher.
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Out-migration and commons management: social and ecological change in a high biodiversity region of Oaxaca, Mexico
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the multiple impacts that demographic and cultural change through human out-migration is having on a commons regime in a high-biodiversity region of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Hurricane Katrina as a Lens for Assessing Socio-Spatial Change in New Orleans
Case Watkins,Ronald R. Hagelman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the U.S. Census, digital inundation data, and a GIS were used to conduct a spatial analysis of flood patterns during Hurricane Katrina, and the subsequent temporal analysis illuminates the changing social patterns that preceded the Katrina-era landscape.
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A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters
Susan L. Cutter,Lindsey Barnes,Melissa Berry,Christopher G. Burton,Elijah Evans,Eric Tate,Jennifer J. Webb +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the disaster resilience of place (DROP) model is proposed to improve comparative assessments of disaster resilience at the local or community level, and a candidate set of variables for implementing the model are also presented as a first step towards its implementation.
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Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience by establishing baseline conditions, it becomes possible to monitor changes in resilience over time in particular places and to compare one place to another.
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A Social Vulnerability Index for Disaster Management
TL;DR: In this article, the development of a social vulnerability index (SVI) from 15 census variables at the census tract level for use in emergency management is described, and the potential value of the SVI by exploring the impact of Hurricane Katrina on local populations.
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Mapping community determinants of heat vulnerability.
Colleen E. Reid,Marie S. O'Neill,Carina J. Gronlund,Shannon J. Brines,Daniel G. Brown,Ana V. Diez-Roux,Jennifer Schwartz +6 more
TL;DR: The evidence that heat waves can result in both increased deaths and illness is substantial, and concern over this issue is rising because of climate change as discussed by the authors, and adverse health impacts from h...
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A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a Coastal City Flood Vulnerability Index (CCFVI) based on exposure, susceptibility and resilience to coastal flooding, which is applied to nine cities around the world, each with different kinds of exposure.