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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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Informing Climate Adaptation: A Review of the Economic Costs of Natural Disasters, Their Determinants, and Risk Reduction Options
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the empirical literature on the economic impacts of natural disasters to inform both climate adaptation policy and the estimation of potential climate damages and discuss risk reduction options and the use of such measures as an adaptation strategy for predicted changes in extreme events with climate change.
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Producing and Governing Community (through) Resilience
TL;DR: This paper argued that the UK government's Community Resilience Programme is less about responding to disasters and more a matter of producing community and governing its behaviour, arguing that the passing over of responsibility to local volunteers and organisations is not only about empowerment, but also about forming identities and relationships that can be more efficiently managed and directed.
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Delphi-based consensus study into a framework of community resilience to disaster
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-round Delphi study is conducted using a local and an international panel of experts with in-depth knowledge in the wide field of disaster management, focusing on six resilience dimensions: social, economic, physical and environmental; governance; health and well-being; information and communication.
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Spatial and Temporal Variation in Evacuee Risk Perception Throughout the Evacuation and Return-Entry Process
TL;DR: The results indicate that geographic location and spatial variation of risk influenced household risk perception and compliance with return-entry plans and sociodemographic characteristics influenced the timing and characteristics of the return groups.
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Gauging the societal impacts of natural disasters using a capability approach.
TL;DR: This article computes and compares the DIIs for two earthquakes of similar magnitude in two societies at different levels of development and of two disasters in the same society.
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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.