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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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Exploring environmental justice in small-scale hydroelectricity power plant (HPP) development in rural Turkey
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to understand and understand environmental justice, political ecology, and modernity in Turkey, focusing on Turkey's history and its present and future.
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Predicting response to reassurances and uncertainties in bioterrorism communications for urban populations in New York and California.
TL;DR: This telephone survey study explored predictors of public reactions to uncertainty communications and reassurances from leaders related to the remediation stage of an urban-based bioterrorism incident to suggest success of risk/crisis communication during recovery is likely to be uneven.
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Developing a hazard-impact model to support impact-based forecasts and warnings: The Vehicle OverTurning (VOT) Model
Rebecca Hemingway,Joanne Robbins +1 more
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Community-Based Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation Tools: A Review of Tools and Their Applications
Elizabeth Mcleod,Shawn W. Margles weis,Supin Wongbusarakum,Meghan Gombos,Angie Dazé,Agnes Otzelberger,Anne Hammill,Vera N. Agostini,Daniel Urena Cot,Mike Wiggins +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a number of tools designed for community-level climate vulnerability and adaptation assessments and their advantages and limitations are reviewed to help managers make informed decisions about tool selection, and guidance provided to help conservation practitioners and development planners select which tool is most appropriate for a given application.
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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.