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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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Port vulnerability assessment from the perspective of critical infrastructure interdependency
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the vulnerability of port failures from an interdependency perspective and developed 14 vulnerable factors by literatures and in-depth interviews, including fuzzy cognitive maps and sensitivity model.
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A vulnerability and resilience framework for small states
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a revised vulnerability/resilience framework, building on the work of Briguglio et al. They also revises and updates the economic vulnerability and economic resilience indices, the former associated with exposure to external shocks and the latter with policies that can enable a country to minimise or withstand the negative effects of such shocks.
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Bridging the gap between theory and practice in climate change vulnerability assessments for remote Indigenous communities in northern Australia
TL;DR: In this paper, the Australian federal government's approach to climate adaptation policy for remote northern Indigenous communities through the close examination of a seminal Scoping Study was examined, and it was concluded that the current approach to vulnerability assessment is insufficiently nuanced to allow an adequate appreciation of factors that influence social vulnerability in remote communities, and consequently, policy developed from it is likely to be ineffective.
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Urban seismic risk index for Medellín, Colombia, based on probabilistic loss and casualties estimations
Mario A. Salgado-Gálvez,Daniela Zuloaga Romero,Cesar A. Velasquez,M. L. Carreño,Omar Darío Cardona,Alex H. Barbat +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a risk assessment of the second largest city of Colombia, Medellin, with a building by building resolution level and considering the dynamic soil response, average annual losses by sectors as well as casualties and other direct effects are obtained and aggregated at county level.
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A composite indicator model to assess natural disaster risks in industry on a spatial level
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new methodology for structural industrial vulnerability assessment based on production fac..., which can be used for risk management at the administrative level (e.g., civil protection authorities).
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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.