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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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Assessing social vulnerability to drought in South Africa: Policy implication for drought risk reduction.
TL;DR: The result found that an SoVI estimated for O.R. Tambo district was very high with a Likert scale of 5 for cultural values and practices, security or safety, social networks, social dependence, preparedness strategies and psychological stress attributed for the high value of social vulnerability to drought.
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Environmental Health Related Socio-Spatial Inequalities: Identifying “Hotspots” of Environmental Burdens and Social Vulnerability
TL;DR: An index-based approach to assess multiple burdens and benefits in combination with vulnerability factors at detailed intra-urban level is applied to the city of Dortmund, Germany, and large numbers of “hotspots” exist in the northern part of the city compared to the southern part.
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Black feminism and radical planning: New directions for disaster planning research:
TL;DR: After Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the United States’ Gulf Coast, conversations about flooding became focused on the interconnections between so-called “natural” disasters, poverty, gender an... as mentioned in this paper.
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Mortality patterns of hydro-geomorphologic disasters
TL;DR: Social impacts caused by floods and landslides in Portugal in the period of 1865-2010 are gathered in the DISASTER database, which contains 1,902 hydro-geomorphologic cases that caused 1,248 fatalities.
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Planning for Climate Adaptation Evaluating the Changing Patterns of Social Vulnerability and Adaptation Challenges in Three Coastal Cities
TL;DR: In this article, the changing patterns of social vulnerability within cities and the climate adaptation challenges these shifting patterns are considered, and the importance of considering social vulnerability is recognized, while recent research has recognized the importance in considering social vulnerabilities.
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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.