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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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Meaning and Posttraumatic Growth Among Survivors of the September 2013 Colorado Floods.
TL;DR: Search for meaning in life may be an important part of recovery from natural disasters, floods being one example, and the present study of 57 survivors of the 2013 Colorado floods concludes.
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Disaster Vulnerability Mapping for a Densely Populated Coastal Urban Area: An Application to Mumbai, India
Mazhuvanchery Avarachen Sherly,Subhankar Karmakar,D. Parthasarathy,Terence Chan,Christian Rau +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a framework to assess the vulnerability of any densely populated urban area to disasters by considering both the population and the assets that are at risk, and a set of indicators was also proposed to assess vulnerability of social and socioeconomic systems, infrastructure, critical facilities, and adaptive capacity.
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Determining extreme heat vulnerability of Harare Metropolitan City using multispectral remote sensing and socio-economic data
TL;DR: Using Landsat-8-derived bio-physical surface properties and socio-demographic factors, this article found that vulnerability to heat-related distress was high in over 40 percent of the city, mainly in densely built-up areas with low-income groups.
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Mapping Heat Health Risks in Urban Areas
TL;DR: An index of population vulnerability in an urban setting using known environmental, demographic, and health-related risk factors for heat stress in urban Melbourne to produce a spatial representation of risk is developed.
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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.