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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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Thunderstorm Hazard vulnerability for the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan region
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed two distinct approaches to examine how the Atlanta area's rapid and extensive development during the latter half of the twentieth century has affected its overall potential exposure to thunderstorm hazards.
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Collecting flooding and vulnerability information in informal settlements: the governance of knowledge production
TL;DR: Processes of knowledge production are looked into by applying a nodal governance framework to analyse the interaction between researchers, local communities, local government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the production of survey data/geographical information system (GIS) knowledge of two specific informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Evaluating risk from a holistic perspective to improve resilience: The United Nations evaluation at global level
Mabel-Cristina Marulanda Fraume,Omar-Darío Cardona A,Paula Marulanda Fraume,Martha-Liliana Carreño T,Alex H. Barbat +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of the holistic evaluation of risk as well as of the implications of risk for development obtained at global level in the framework of the UN Atlas-GAR: Unveiling Disaster Risk, using the probabilistic physical risk results, obtained from the multi-hazard Global Risk Assessment 2015, socioeconomic indicators and macroeconomic flow variables available in worldwide databases for more than 200 countries and territories.
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Evaluation of the Design Features of Interactive Sea-Level Rise Viewers for Risk Communication
TL;DR: This study characterizes how ISLRVs communicate about SLR-related risks and provide decision-making support and identifies key themes about fostering accurate mental models of SLR processes, informing about inundation likelihood, communicating about related social and ecological risks, and providing features users can apply to specific tasks.
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The role of low-cost housing in the path from vulnerability to resilience
TL;DR: In this paper, four different housing strategies used after the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran, illustrate the role of housing in the path that can potentially lead communities from a vulnerable state to resilience.
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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.