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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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Climate Change, Energy Developments and Perceptions of Place
Amanda D. Boyd,Amanda Miller +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine perceptions of energy systems and climate change in relation to public perspectives of "place" (i.e., relationships with the area and landscape) and demonstrate that sense of place is an important factor in participants' preferences for energy systems.
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Selection of Scale in Vulnerability and Resilience Assessments
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define vulnerability as the potential for loss, and express it as a function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity, which is defined as the ability of an object or system to adjust to hazards and impacts.
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Disasters and crime: the effect of flooding on property crime in Brisbane neighborhoods
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the effects of a significant flood event on levels of property crime across 400 neighborhoods in a capital city in Australia and found that flood-related property damage in flooded neighborhoods may have led to displacement.
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Flooding and livelihood adaptation strategies of farmers in Builsa South and Talensi districts in the Upper East Region
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of flooding on farmers' livelihood and the adaptation strategies of farmers to ensure food security were examined using cross-sectional and descriptive study designs, a concurrent mixed method approach involving both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies were used.
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Review and evaluation of existing vulnerability indicators for assessing climate related vulnerability in Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a theoretical setting on the concept of vulnerability, vulnerability assessment and indicators in order to identify and evaluate relevant assessment measures for the CLUVA project, and describe a set of identified indicators which serves as a starting point for selecting appropriate indicators for assessing climate related vulnerability.
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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.