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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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Assessing socio-economic vulnerability to climate change impacts and environmental hazards in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.
TL;DR: In this paper, the state of knowledge concerning socio-economic vulnerability to climate change impacts and environmental hazards in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia is assessed using a systematic review and synthesisation of academic, peer-reviewed literature.
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Development and validation of a crisis self‐efficacy index
TL;DR: This paper developed a crisis self-efficacy index to provide a tool for crisis communication researchers and practitioners to understand behavioral aspects of crisis response better, and evaluated public's crisis selfefficacy using this index inform strategic message development to protect the public and minimize crisis damages by identifying the public/s most in need of self−efficacy enhancing interventions.
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Chapter 1 The Collapse of Place: Derelict Land, Deprivation, and Health Inequality in Glasgow, Scotland
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City Resilience vs. Resilient City: Terminological Intricacies and Concept Inaccuracies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain the concept of resilience, its reference to the city and clear up ambiguities of the terminology related to the two lines of research on resilience in relation to the relevant literature.
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Place- and Age-Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction for Hong Kong: Collaborative Place Audit and Social Vulnerability Index for Elders
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reformulated the concept and contents of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Hong Kong through an explorative study on collaborative place audit (CPA) and social vulnerability index (SVI) for elders.
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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.