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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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Abnormal labor outcomes as a function of maternal exposure to a catastrophic hurricane event during pregnancy
TL;DR: Analysis of birth events in Miami-Dade and Broward counties in Florida from 1992 to 1993 shows that hurricane-exposed pregnant women were significantly more likely to experience stress-induced abnormal labor and cesarean delivery outcomes as compared to statistically matched comparison groups.
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Nonlinearity, fuzziness and incommensurability in indicator-based assessments of vulnerability to climate change: A new mathematical framework
Abbas El-Zein,Fahim N. Tonmoy +1 more
TL;DR: A new mathematical framework for vulnerability is developed by introducing the concept of harm criterion as a mediator between an indicator and the vulnerability it represents and finds that the incorporation of non-linearity can have a significant impact on the rankings.
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The environmental justice implications of managing hazardous fuels on federal forest lands
Mark D.O. Adams,Susan Charnley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, federal government agencies play an important role in mitigating some risks posed to communities by natural hazard events, especially communities with high proportions of low-income or minoritized populations.
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An Integrated and Interdisciplinary Model for Predicting the Risk of Injury and Death in Future Earthquakes.
TL;DR: The proposed model offers a novel approach that allows quantification of the combined impact of human-related and structural factors on the results of earthquake casualty modelling and could lead to a possible decrease in the expected number of casualties.
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School vulnerability to disaster: examination of school closure, demographic, and exposure factors in Hurricane Ike’s wind swath
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the spatial distribution patterns of school closures and tested the relationship between school closure and vulnerability factors (namely physical exposure and school demographics) using zero-inflated negative binomial regression models and found that higher probabilities of hurricane strikes, more urbanized school districts, and school districts located in coastal counties on the right side of Ike's path have significant positive associations with an increase in the number of school closure days.
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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.