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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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A Methodology For Undertaking Vulnerability Assessments Of Flood Susceptible Communities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a planning and risk management tool for assessing the vulnerability of communities to flooding, using a combination of Monte Carlo Simulation techniques and multi-criteria analysis.
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A land-use allocation optimization model to mitigate potential seismic damages
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of pseudodata is generated by an earthquake-engineering simulation model for the city of Taichung, Taiwan, using twenty-two significant historical seismic events.
Dissertation
Transmission of Environmental Knowledge and Land Skills in Adaptation to Climate Change in the Arctic
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how environmental knowledge and land skills are generated and transmitted among Inuit in an arctic community, and investigate how this influences adaptation to climate change.
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Development of a spatially explicit vulnerability-resilience model for community level hazard mitigation enhancement
TL;DR: A resilience index that incorporates place, spatial, and scale specific indicators that are more appropriate for community level analysis was developed and depicts that traditional vulnerability indicators are differentially impactful at varying spatial scales.
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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.