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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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Índice de vulnerabilidad ante el COVID-19 en México
Manuel Suárez Lastra,Carlos Valdés González,M. Carlos Galindo Pérez,L. Enrique Salvador Guzmán,Naxhelli Ruiz-Rivera,Irasema Alcántara-Ayala,Malaquías López-Cervantes,Ana Rosa Rosales Tapia,William H. Lee,Héctor Benítez-Pérez,María del Carmen Juárez Gutiérrez,O. Arturo Bringas López,Oralia Oropeza Orozco,Armando Peralta Higuera,Ricardo J. Garnica-Peña +14 more
TL;DR: An index of vulnerability to COVID-19 was developed for Mexico at municipal scale (2457 municipalities) as mentioned in this paper, which allows identifying the spatial distribution of the different factors associated with greater susceptibility to the disease or the adverse effects of COVID19 in sick persons.
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Assessing Integrated Earthquake Risk in OpenQuake with an Application to Mainland Portugal
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of standards, data, and tools for the assessment of earthquake risk is discussed, and a risk assessment sciences is developed for the evaluation of the risk of earthquakes in Portugal.
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Coastal areas and climate change: A decision support tool for implementing adaptation measures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a new index, the Coastal Resilience Index (CoRI), based on the existing literature on coastal vulnerability indices, and developed a decision support tool to identify adaptation measures aiming to reduce the impacts of coastal flooding, caused by rising sea levels and storm surges.
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Linking the stressors and stressing the linkages: Human—environment vulnerability and brownfield redevelopment in New York City
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a Vulnerability Scoping Diagram (VSD) approach to identify components that contribute to vulnerabilities and perceived vulnerabilities in the local community, based on the thematic analysis of 55 interviews with residents from four neighbourhoods with brownfield redevelopment activities in New York City.
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Introduction: Disasters, Housing, Actuarialism and the Securitisation of Risk
Stewart Williams,Keith Jacobs +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a special issue of Housing Studies brings together papers that consider how disasters and disaster management are conceived in relation to housing, drawing upon the work of Beck and Foucault to show how the governance of risk society is constituted through particular ways of knowing and not knowing, the enactment of safety, insecurity and the methods associated with actuarialism.
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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.