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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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Risky Business: Willingness to Pay for Disaster Preparedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which people are willing to pay to improve community-level preparedness and individual household preparedness is examined, based on two original national random surveys of household decision-makers.
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Social Determinants of Health, Disaster Vulnerability, Severe and Morbid Obesity in Adults: Triple Jeopardy?
TL;DR: Specific consideration is required to ensure ‘all-of-society engagement and partnership’ in an inclusive, accessible and non-discriminatory manner to ensure no one is left behind when working to reduce disaster risk for vulnerable groups.
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Principles in practice: Toward a conceptual framework for resilient urban design
TL;DR: The concept of urban resilience is one of the most debated concepts that confronts environmental, socioeconomic, and political uncertainty and risk as discussed by the authors. But decision-makers cannot deploy substantial principles of resilie...
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Improving resilience through vulnerability assessment and management
TL;DR: It is argued that vulnerability is an inherent characteristic of any system, hard or soft, and its identification and management is essential for improving the system's resilience.
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Household Emergency Preparedness by Housing Type from a Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER), Michigan
Michelle Murti,Tesfaye Bayleyegn,Martha Stanbury,William Dana Flanders,Ellen E. Yard,Mawuli Nyaku,Amy Wolkin +6 more
TL;DR: Households in multi-unit dwellings were less likely to have certain recommended emergency plans and supplies compared to those in single detached homes and income level adjusted ORs remained statistically significant except for owning a CO detector.
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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.