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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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The Inverse Response Law: Theory and Relevance to the Aftermath of Disasters.
Suzanne Phibbs,Christine Kenney,Graciela Rivera-Munoz,Thomas J. Huggins,Christina Severinsen,Bruce Curtis +5 more
TL;DR: The Inverse Care Law is outlined, its application to medical treatment following disasters considered and an explanation of the Inverse Response Law provided.
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A temporal social resilience framework of communities to disasters in Australia
TL;DR: In this article, a unified framework of social resilience across three disaster phases (i.e., pre-disaster, response and recovery) using a quantitative research method was proposed.
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An assessment of place vulnerability to natural hazard in south-western Lesotho (Quthing and Mohale's Hoek districts)
TL;DR: In this article, the Bogardi, Birkmann and Cardona (BBC) framework is used to define the conditions of vulnerability and expose the vulnerability of a person to natural hazards and disasters.
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Facts about FEMA Household Disaster Aid: Examining the 2008 Floods and Tornadoes in Missouri
TL;DR: This paper examined postdisaster grants to households from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the state of Missouri in 2008, when the state experienced flooding, storms, and tornadoes, and found that the majority of aid grants are for very small amounts of money, on the order of a few thousand dollars.
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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.