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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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Managing the Impact of Disaster
TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 1,000 randomly selected households from 15 villages and one urban settlement in the Nagapattinam District (Tamil Nadu, India) showed that approximately 79.6 per cent of displaced households selected permanent public buildings and religious or community buildings as their first choice of shelter.
Climate Change Adaptation in Ciudad del Este: Starting-Point Vulnerability Assessment
P Sakai,D Oberling,T Schneider,L Lopez,N Caballero,F Oreggioni,Marco Sakai,A Tischner,C Aquino,AC Franzini,G Coronel +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an Urban Vulnerability Index was built using 73 economic, social, climatic and environmental indicators, in order to quantify the sensitivity of the city to extreme weather events, as well as its capacity to cope and adapt to those events.
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Personas mayores en situaciones de desastre: un análisis desde su experiencia en el incendio de Valparaíso de 2014:
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative exploratory study was conducted to investigate how the elderly experience socio-natural disasters, and the results of the interpretative analysis that emerged from the in-depth interviews revealed that they identify conditions of vulnerability in the context they inhabit, including material and emotional abandonment.
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Measuring climate and extreme weather vulnerability to inform resilience, report 1 : a pilot study for North Atlantic medium- and high-use maritime freight
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an Indicator-Based Vulnerability Assessment methodology that integrates multiple vulnerability indicators for ports in the North Atlantic region and used the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for organizing and analyzing complex decisions using pairwise comparisons.
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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.