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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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Vulnérabilité, risques et environnement : l’itinéraire chaotique d’un paradigme sociologique contemporain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explicite l'itineraire du paradigme de la vulnerabilite sociale dans l'etude des risques environnementaux a partir d'une revue de ses definitions and usages par les sciences sociales, and du rappel de quelques grandes questions scientifiques pour lesquelles la notion a ete mobilisee en particulier par les sociologues.
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Service Innovation Using Social Robot to Reduce Social Vulnerability among Older People in Residential Care Facilities
TL;DR: In this paper, the main factors of social vulnerability among older people and the improvements in social life after engaging with social robots are explored, and the influence of these factors on each other is examined.
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Coastal vulnerability assessment of the predicted sea level rise in the coastal zone of Krishna–Godavari delta region, Andhra Pradesh, east coast of India
TL;DR: In this paper, a coastal vulnerability index (CVI) for the coastal subregion of Krishna-Godavari delta was calculated by using four geological and three physical parameters characterizing the vulnerability of the study coastal region, including regional slope, coastal elevation, geomorphology, significant wave height, mean tidal range and relative sea level using different conventional and remotely sensed data.
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The Affluence–Vulnerability Interface: Intersecting scales of risk, privilege and disaster
TL;DR: The authors examines vulnerability in the context of affluence and privilege in the 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm in California, USA to examine long-term lived experiences of the disaster, focusing on the 1990s.
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SEVUCAS: A Novel GIS-Based Machine Learning Software for Seismic Vulnerability Assessment
Saro Lee,Mahdi Panahi,Hamid Reza Pourghasemi,Himan Shahabi,Mohsen Alizadeh,Ataollah Shirzadi,Khabat Khosravi,Assefa M. Melesse,Mohamad Yekrangnia,Fatemeh Rezaie,Hamindreza Moeini,Binh Thai Pham,Baharin Bin Ahmad +12 more
TL;DR: A GIS-based open source software entitled Seismic-Related Vulnerability Calculation Software (SEVUCAS), based on the Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) method and geographic information system, has been developed to assess seismic vulnerability by considering four groups of criteria.
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