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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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Mensuração de vulnerabilidade na escala de detalhe para mapeamento de riscos: Uma proposição inicial
Fernando Nogueira,Samia Nascimento Sulaiman,Vitor Vieira Vasconcelos,Rafael Costa e Silva,Beatriz Oliveira de Carvalho +4 more
TL;DR: A reflection on vulnerability as a component of social construction of risk, as well as an intrinsic component of its own causality, is presented, using a model of nested vulnerability levels associated with a gradual increase in the level of detail scale of the geotechnical cartography.
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Southeastern United States Predictors of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes
TL;DR: County-level CO VID-19 estimates and NHs with more certified beds were predictors of COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes (NHs) across all time periods and Predictors of NH cases varied across the time periods with fewer community and NH variables predicting COvid-19 in NH during the late period.
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Vulnerability Assessment to COVID Pandemic in Urban Settlement: A Case Study from India
Shahab Fazal,Salma Sultana +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a comparative analysis of ward-wise vulnerability in Aligarh city for the COVID-19 pandemic, which is the outcome of the interaction between physical, built-up, social, and economic environment.
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Índice de vulnerabilidade socioambiental em áreas de regularização fundiária urbana: uma proposta metodológica
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a methodology for calculating theSocioenvironmental Vulnerability Index for areas that have undergone anurban land regularization process based on the social vulnerability index ofthe Institute of Applied Economic Research and addressing social, economic, legal and environmental issues.
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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.