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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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Regional prioritisation of flood risk in mountainous areas
TL;DR: In this article, a method is proposed to identify mountainous watersheds with the highest flood risk at the regional level, which is carried out through an index composed of a qualitative indicator of vulnerability and a qualitative flash flood/debris flow susceptibility indicator.
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Resilience and ‘technicity’: challenges and opportunities for new knowledge practices in disaster planning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the use of the terminology of resilience in the planning field with increasing exposure to environmental catastrophes and natural hazards, and propose a framework for building resilience.
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Multihazard Analysis: Integrated Engineering and Social Science Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the potential impacts from a future disaster can be reduced through decreasing the hazard exposure and reducing the community's vulnerability, which can be achieved through decreasing hazard exposure through reducing hazard exposure.
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The Effects of Large Wildfires on Employment and Wage Growth and Volatility in the Western United States
TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of large wildfires on economic growth and volatility in the western United States and found that the amount of suppression costs invested locally had the strongest influence on employment growth, indicating that there may be room for augmenting how local economies experience wildfire through the development of community capacity or by addressing barriers to local spending in federal wildfire policy.
A Hazard Assessment and Proposed Risk Index for Art, Architecture, Archive and Artifact Protection: Case Studies for Assorted International Museums
TL;DR: In this article, a hazard/risk index for environmental, technological, and social hazards that may threaten a museum or other place of cultural storage and accession is proposed, which can be utilized and implemented to measure the risk at the locations of these storage facilities in relationship to their geologic, geographic, environmental, and Social settings.
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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.